Widgets

Overview

Dashboard widgets are visual representations of data. They serve as the building blocks for your dashboards to visualize and correlate your data across your infrastructure. They can contain different types of information, such as graphs, images, logs, and statuses, to give you an overview of your systems and environments.

Get started

The fastest way to onboard widgets relevant to your data is to clone a dashboard from the preset list which includes dashboards created by other members of your organization and out-of-the-box templates for your installed integrations. After you clone a dashboard, you can customize widgets to your use case.

Additional guides and courses to learn about widgets:


Add a widget to your dashboard

To begin using widgets in your dashboards:

  1. Navigate to the Dashboards page in Datadog.
  2. Click New Dashboard or select an existing dashboard to edit.
  3. Click Add Widget. Choose from a variety of widget types such as timeseries, bar chart, table, or event stream.
  4. Configure your widget:
    • Select data source: Choose metrics, logs, traces, or other data sources.
    • Customize visualization: Adjust display settings, units, and timeframes to fit your needs.
    • Add context: Use custom links, conditional formatting, and grouping for enhanced insights.
  5. Save your dashboard and share it with your team or externally as needed.

For more information, see Widget Configuration and explore the available Widget Types.

Data sources

Widgets can visualize data from multiple Datadog sources including:

  • APM Traces: Application performance monitoring data
  • Events: Custom events, deployments, and annotations
  • Logs: Log events, log analytics, and log-based metrics
  • Metrics: Infrastructure, application, and custom metrics
  • RUM: Real User Monitoring and synthetic test data
  • SLOs: Service Level Objectives and error budgets
  • Security: Security signals and compliance data

Common use cases

  • Use Timeseries widgets for CPU, memory, and network metrics over time

  • Use Hostmap widgets to visualize resource usage across your infrastructure

  • Use Top List widgets to identify the most resource-intensive hosts or services

  • Use Timeseries widgets to track response times, error rates, and throughput

  • Use Service Summary widgets for high-level service health overviews

  • Use Topology Map widgets to visualize service dependencies and data flow

  • Use Query Value widgets for key performance indicators and business metrics

  • Use Funnel widgets to track user conversion through your application

  • Use Retention widgets to analyze user engagement and churn

  • Use Alert Graph widgets to show alert history and trends

  • Use Monitor Summary widgets for current alert status across your infrastructure

  • Use Event Stream widgets for real-time event monitoring

Widget resources

Widget configuration and types: