ThousandEyes Dashboard: Using the Number Card widget (with examples)

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ThousandEyes is a powerful SaaS platform that gives a digital picture of enterprise infrastructure, formed by test views, alerts, dashboards, and other components.

This article will demonstrate how to quickly and easily display the ratio of alerting cases, with the desired time interval, by creating a ThousandEyes Dashboard Widget of the Number type.

Section 1: Preparing the data.

We'll work with four test examples in this article, where two are generating alerts and the other two are not. They are named as follows:

• Test-Alert-1, Test-Alert-2: These two consistently trigger alerts due to their preset settings.
• Test-NO-Alert-1, Test-NO-Alert-2: These two tests do not trigger alerts.

All four tests are grouped under the label KB_Label.

Let's observe their appearance within CEA-Test Settings:

The Task requires creating a Dashboard Widget Number Card to display the percentage ratio of tests triggering alerts.

Follow along with the instructions on the following screenshots:

[1] Navigate to Dashboards.

[2] Select "Add Widget"

[3] Select Widget type "Number"

[4]  Choose "Alerts" as the data source.

[5] Select the Metric.

[6] Specify the measure for alerts.

[7] Name the Card.

[8] Choose the relevant tests whose data will be used in the Card calculation.

Tip: utilize labeling to organize your tests and access them quickly:

To add interest to the experiment, I generated four Cards with the following objectives:

[9] Card1-pass1 settings:

Data source: Alerts
Metric: all alerts
Measure: % Active
Test selected: 1st non-alerting test

[10] Card2-pass1-pass2 settings:

Data source: Alerts
Metric: All Alerts
Measure: Total
Test selected: All 4 tests

[11] Card3-fail1 settings:

Data source: Alerts
Metric: All Alerts
Measure: % Inactive
Test selected: 1st alerting test

[12] Card4 - fail1 fail2 pass1 pass2 settings:

Data source: Alerts
Metric: All Alerts
Measure: % Active
Test selected: 1st and 2nd alerting test, 1st and 2nd non-alerting tests

Section 2: Findings.

With the cards are configured, the next step is to let them run. In this scenario, I allowed 14 days to generate data for us to review together. Let's examine what they display and review the details of each!

After two weeks, the four cards appear on my dashboard as follows:

Card1-pass1: on the Dashboard, we observe that 0% of tests triggered alerts, yet 1 test is indicated as selected for calculation:

Card2-pass1-pass2: It's evident that a total of 9 alerts were triggered by 2 out of the 4 selected tests:

Card3-fail1: displays the percentage ratio of inactive alerts triggered by one test.

Card4 - fail1 fail2 pass1 pass2: displays the percentage ratio calculated from the data of four selected tests:

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Reference of useful ThousandEyes resources:

• Main web page: thousandeyes.com
• Official documentation portal: docs.thousandeyes.com
• ThousandEyes documentation on how to Use the Dashboards
• Application page: app.thousandeyes.com