Building Dashboards, Widgets, Charts, and Graphs

LogScale provides users with a series of tools that help visualize the data and garner insights, including dashboards, widgets, charts, and graphs.

Dashboards and Widgets

LogScale dashboards are built to provide users with a way to provide insights and real-time visualization of log data. They are built to work interdependently with widgets, which users should think of as individual components that can be "plugged in" and used to perform organization and display functions for data as it's aggregated.

Bar and Pie Charts

The way a user chooses to display data insights is dependent on the data itself, and both bar and pie charts have specific considerations for when to utilize them.

Bar Charts

There are two types of bar chart:

  • Single series - Displays one data series with individual bars representing single values.

  • Multiple series - Displays one or more metrics per category, or one metric broken down by two dimensions.

Graphs Over Time

Shared Time Selector

The Shared Time Selector allows users to set a time range for all widgets on a dashboard to establish consistency.

Widget Time Selector

The Widget Time Selector feature allows for detailed comparative analysis across different time periods by enabling specific time ranges for individual dashboard widgets.

Live Dashboards

To control whether widget queries are executed as live or static queries, users should implement the 'Live' checkbox.

Important

When a widget's time range is using time anchoring, live queries are not supported.