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Create a custom dashboard

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Create custom dashboards by describing what you want to monitor in plain language. The AI guides you through the setup so your dashboards match your workloads and priorities.

About this task

Custom dashboards use an AI-guided dialog to understand what you want to visualize. You describe your monitoring needs in natural language, and the system asks clarifying questions to ensure the dashboard meets your requirements.

Once created, you can refresh the dashboard to see updated data.

Remember that custom dashboards are read-only by design and cannot make changes to your storage or workload configurations.

Note If your account admin has turned off AI features, you'll see a message and won't be able to create dashboards. Contact your administrator or learn about AI administration.

Create a dashboard

Steps

  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. Select the menu The hamburger menu icon is used to navigate to workloads like storage and then select Workloads Overview > Custom dashboards.

    If this is your first dashboard, you'll see a blank screen with sample prompts to help you get started. You can select Copy prompt to copy a sample prompt into the AI dialog text box.

  3. Select Create new dashboard.

  4. In the AI dialog, describe what you want to monitor.

    Describe it in plain language. The AI will ask a few questions to better understand your needs.

  5. Select The menu icon is used to begin generating dashboards..

  6. Respond to the AI's clarifying questions.

    The AI might ask you to choose from several options to better understand what you need. Answer each question and select Continue, or select Skip to move past optional questions.

  7. After answering all questions, select Continue to create your dashboard.

Your dashboard is being created. This might take a moment.

Result

Your custom dashboard is created and added to the dashboard catalog. By default, the dashboard is private and only visible to you. You can change the visibility to public if you want to share it with other users in your Workload Factory account. Learn how to change dashboard visibility.

You'll get a notification when your dashboard is ready. If it can't be created, you'll get a notification with a link to try again. Learn about configuring notifications.

What's next

After creation, you can:

  • Change dashboard visibility to share with your team

  • Refresh dashboard data to see the latest information

  • Delete dashboards you no longer need

  • View dashboard details, including who created it and when it was last updated