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Hello and welcome. Let's explore creating dashboards with NetApp. These will enable you to visualize data in formats that best suit your needs, turning raw numbers into insightful narratives. Let's jump right in and start building our first dashboard. Dashboards are composed of widgets, each offering a unique way to visualize your data. For this example, I'd like to monitor my storage pools, so I'll start with a single value widget. Here's how I do it I choose storage pools from the list of objects I can visualize. I opt for object count to display the number of storage pools I have, rather than a metric like IOPs. I label it as storage pools so I know exactly what I'm referring to when I'm looking at the dashboard. I give my widget a title and save it to my dashboard. With that, I've just added my first widget showing how many storage pools I am monitoring. Now that I've got my widget, I can adjust its size and position. Want to tweak the view of the widget data? No problem. For example, I might decide to show only the storage pools that are over 90% used by using this metrics filter, and it updates my count with just those storage pools. Let's clear that filter for now. Let's add another layer of INSIGHT with a bar chart. This time I'll discover the top ten storage pools by total capacity. To do that, I select storage pools and capacity total to work with. I grouped by storage pool to rank them, in this case by top ten to find the highest capacity. I give my widget a title and save it to my dashboard. And there you have it. My bar chart now showcases the top ten highest capacity storage pools. To take it a step further, I'll duplicate the bar chart to create a column chart, saving time by reusing much of the previous widget. Now I'm focusing on efficiency monitoring how effectively my storage pools capacity is used as key. I'm tracking compression results and you could do the same for dedupe or compaction. I change my metric to compression, saving space total. I give my widget a title and save it to my dashboard. Now with this new column chart, I can quickly see which storage pools compress the most and how much space I'm saving, which is valuable insight for optimizing my storage environment. What's super helpful is to add dashboard variables that update the entire dashboard, and allow me to narrow all my widgets down to just the storage pools I want to review. In this case, for specific storage models, it's going to be the AFF and FAS models. All my widgets update to just show storage pools from those storage models. I'll also add a variable that lets me input a storage pool name. Note that I can use an exclusion to filter out information I don't want to include. For example, I don't want aggregate zeros included in my results as they aren't used for data. Again, this updates all my widgets for just the storage pools I want to see. By now, you're probably seeing how dashboards can transform your data management experience. They're not just about monitoring. They're about gaining insights, making informed decisions, and ultimately driving better outcomes. So what's next? Visit the gallery to explore our pre-built dashboards. Each one is based on real world scenarios and ready to go, and you can customize any to fit your specific needs. The more you explore, the more value you'll find. Keep experimenting. Try different widgets, customize your views, and discover the full potential of NetApp dashboards. With NetApp dashboards, you can spot trends with thresholds that reveal risks before they become outages. See everything with a single dashboard that unites storage, performance and business metrics with no tool hopping. Take action with interactive widgets that let you drill into data and share insights instantly with no coding.
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