Dashboards

Where to find it?

On the instance main page, find the search button in the top left corner. Select the Dashboard entity. In the bottom left part of the modal window you can click the Create Dashboard button.

Name requirements for Dashboards and Panels

1. Length from 4 to 20 characters
2. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and _.-

WARNING

The name cannot be changed later

Creating a Dashboard in Pepeunit

Creating a dashboard consists of three steps:

1. Create a Dashboard; for this it is enough to enter a name.
2. Create N panels for the Dashboard; here you only need to enter a name and choose a type from the list. The types correspond to standard Visualization options in Grafana plus one additional type: Horly Heatmap. You can later change the type in the dashboard itself in the Grafana interface, since you will have modifier rights in your organization.
3. Link UnitNode objects to a panel. Click the UnitNodes button for the specific panel; the selection interface is similar to linking Output->Input, except that you can choose both Input and Output.

At the linking stage you can set two flags:

1. Only last value ? — Allows you to query only the last value for this UnitNode, regardless of the policy selected in the DataPipe.
2. Value str to json ? — Attempts to convert the value string into a dict object, which is useful if graphs or similar structures are stored in value.

WARNING

You can link any UnitNode, but you will only be able to send data to Grafana for those that have a properly configured DataPipe.

INFO

If your DataPipe already has data, then during synchronization Pepeunit will extract the keys and save them into the columns field of the Datasource, so you will not have to fill them in manually.