Design and build your own dashboards by combining built-in widgets, custom tables, and network topology views. Custom dashboards are accessible from the Dashboard menu alongside the built-in dashboards.
Custom Dashboards in Cloudmon allow IT teams to design tailored views by selecting and arranging built-in widgets according to their specific monitoring needs. Widgets are grouped into Performance, Network, and General categories, and custom tables and topology views can also be added. Once created, custom dashboards appear under the Dashboard menu in the top navigation bar alongside the built-in dashboards.
Custom dashboards support Live Dashboard mode, which auto-refreshes the data at a configurable interval so displayed data stays current without manual page reloads.
Performance widgets provide insights into system, application, and network performance metrics:
| Widget | Description |
| Pie Chart | Displays metric distribution as proportional segments, useful for visualising utilisation breakdowns. |
| Top N | Shows the top-performing entities based on a selected metric for quick identification of high-usage resources. |
| Bottom N | Highlights the lowest-performing entities to help detect underutilised or degraded components. |
| Table | Presents detailed metric data in tabular format with support for filtering, sorting, and pagination. |
| Outages | Displays availability and outage information for monitored entities within a selected time period. |
| Heatmap | Uses colour-coded visualisation to represent metric intensity across devices or groups with clearly labelled filters. |
| Time Series Chart | Displays metric trends over time, enabling historical analysis and pattern identification. |
Network widgets help visualise network structure, connectivity, and traffic paths:
| Widget | Description |
| Network Topology | Displays a hierarchical view of network devices and their relationships for easier navigation and dependency analysis. |
| Topology Maps | Provides a graphical layout of network components mapped to represent physical or logical connections. |
| Network Path | Visualises the path taken by network traffic between endpoints to help identify latency or connectivity issues. |
General widgets provide contextual and custom content:
| Widget | Description |
| iFrame | Embeds external web content or applications directly within the dashboard. |
| Notes | Adds text-based annotations or operational notes to the dashboard. |
| Image | Displays uploaded images such as diagrams, logos, or reference visuals. |
| Date and Time | Shows the current date and time based on system or selected time zone. |
| Custom HTML | Enables embedding of custom HTML content for advanced visualisation or integration use cases. |
| Business View | Represents business services or logical groupings to provide a high-level operational view aligned with business context. |
TOP N widget fields:
| Field | Description |
| Name | Name of the widget to be displayed on the dashboard. |
| No. of Items | The number of data rows to display in the widget, for example Top 10 or Top 5. |
| Monitoring Type | The type of monitoring data to display, such as Agents, Network Devices, or Interfaces. |
| Metric | The metric to rank entities by, such as CPU Usage or Memory Usage. |
| View As | The visualisation format. Options include Table and Bar Chart. |
Add Table fields:
| Field | Description |
| Name | Name of the custom table to be displayed on the dashboard. |
| Data Source | The data source for the table. Options include DEM Agents, Agents, Applications, and Interfaces. |
| Filters | Filters to apply to refine the data shown in the table. |
| Limit | The maximum number of data rows to display per page in the table. |
Live Dashboards ensure that displayed data is always current by automatically refreshing at a configured interval. This is available in both built-in and custom dashboards. To enable auto-refresh, navigate to any dashboard, click the three-dot icon in the top right corner, and select Auto Refresh. Choose from the available intervals: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 10 minutes. The dashboard will begin refreshing automatically at the selected interval.
Live dashboards are particularly valuable for Network Operations Centres (NOCs) and IT teams that require continuous infrastructure visibility during active monitoring periods, incident response, and real-time performance tracking.