Monitor Group Widgets
Monitor group widgets summarize an entire monitor group, rather than individual monitors, on a dashboard. Use them to build management-level views of applications, business services, or sites that are organized as monitor groups, business views, or topology/geographic maps.
Applications Manager groups seven widgets under this category.
Availability and Health Status
Shows a current-status snapshot for one or more monitor groups. This is the monitor-group-scoped counterpart of Availability & Health Status - Multiple Monitors.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Show Monitor Groups From | All Monitor Groups, or a configured custom field expression to pick a dynamic subset of monitor groups. |
| Include Subgroups | Includes child (sub) monitor groups of the selected groups, shown once a custom field expression is chosen. |
| Show Today's Availability | Adds a column showing each monitor group's availability for the current day. |
| Show Monitors Status | Adds a rollup of member monitor statuses. Visible only to Enterprise/MSP administrators. |
| Exclude unmanaged Monitor Groups | Leaves unmanaged monitor groups out of the snapshot. |
| Severities to include | Only Critical or Warning and Critical, controls which severities count toward the group's status. |
Business View Widget
Embeds an existing Business View, a logical, drag-and-drop layout of monitors and monitor groups representing a business service, directly inside a dashboard cell.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Available Business Views | Choose one of the Business Views already created for your monitor groups. |
Note: If no Business Views have been configured yet, the dropdown shows No Business Views Configured and the widget cannot be saved until one is created.
Last 24 Hours / 30 Days Availability History
Plots the availability history of one or more monitor groups over a selected time period as a graph.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Select Time Period | Time range for the history graph: Last 1/3/6/12 hours, Last 24 hours, Today, Yesterday, This week, Last 7 days, Last week, This month, Last 30 days, or Last month. |
| Show Additional Options | Reveals Show Duration (add an Uptime/Downtime duration column), Exclude Full Availability (hide monitor groups that were up for the entire period), and Show Availability Percentage Chart (add a percentage-availability chart alongside the history graph). |
| Show Monitor Groups From | All Monitor Groups or a configured custom field expression. |
Last 24 Hours / 30 Days Health History
The health counterpart of the availability history widget. Plots the health trend of one or more monitor groups over a chosen time period as a graph.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Select Time Period | Time range for the history graph: Last 1/3/6/12 hours, Last 24 hours, Today, Yesterday, This week, Last 7 days, Last week, This month, Last 30 days, or Last month. |
| Show Monitor Groups From | All Monitor Groups or a configured custom field expression. |
Monitor Groups - Tree View
Displays your monitor groups as an expandable tree, with each node color-coded by severity, so you can drill from a high-level rollup down into a specific group's members.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Show Monitor Groups From | All Monitor Groups or a configured custom field expression. |
| Select severity | Multi-select of health severities (Critical, Warning, Clear, Unknown) used to color-code each node in the tree. |
| Sort By | Order the monitor groups in the tree. |
| Show Top | Maximum number of monitor groups to display (10, 25, 50, 100, 250, or All). |
Topology Map View
Embeds an existing Topology Map, a network/dependency-style layout of monitors, directly inside a dashboard cell.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Available Topology Maps | Choose one of the topology maps already created for your monitor groups. |
Note: If no topology maps exist yet, the dropdown shows No topology maps added and the widget cannot be saved until one is created.
World Map View
Plots monitor groups on a world map, color-coded by severity. Useful when monitor groups represent geographically distributed sites, data centers, or offices.
Configuration options
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Widget Name | Name that appears on the dashboard for this widget. |
| Description | Optional text to describe the widget's purpose. |
| Show Monitor Groups From | All Monitor Groups or a configured custom field expression. At least one monitor group must be selected. |
| Select severity | Multi-select of health severities (Critical, Warning, Clear, Unknown) used to color-code each monitor group's marker on the map. |
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