Configuring the dashboard

The configuration of our dashboard can be done very easily by clicking in the top-right on the Edit dashboard button: 

By clicking this button, we arrive at some sort of configuration mode for our dashboard, and when we move our mouse over one of the widgets, we see that a box is drawn around the widget:

Moving our mouse over one of these lines allows us to change the size of the widget. Moving our mouse away to the middle will change our mouse cursor into four arrows, which indicates that we are now able to move our widget around.

In short, we are now able to resize our widget and change the position of our widgets. This allows us to change the look of the dashboard by resizing widgets as we need. Think of the problem widget; we can now create a widget with the exact size we need to see the number of problems.

Looking at the Edit dashboard button that we clicked on earlier, we now see that it has changed into four different options:

The first icon is the wheel. When we click on the wheel, we are able to configure the dashboard and change the owner and the name of our dashboard:

The Add widget button gives us the option to add new widgets to our dashboard:

Here, we can select the type of widget we'd like to add and configure the name we'd like to give it, set the refresh interval per widget, the way we sort things, and the number of lines to show. As we can see, there is a nice long list of widgets to choose from—let's hope that this is only the start of it:

We will not go over every widget as this would take up too much time, and after all, widgets are not too difficult to configure. However, there is one widget that is very interesting. The Graph widget appears twice in this list, once as Graph and once as Graph (classic).

As it turns out, Zabbix has improved not only the look and the functionalities of the dashboard, but also how graphs look in our dashboard. Graph (classic) is still the old graph style that we know from our items, and the Graph widget contains the new look, not to say the Graphana-style look:

This is a much more appealing look than what we are used to. Too bad it only works in the frontend at the moment, but this was a well-thought-out decision as it would have cost resources from our Zabbix server. Once done and happy with our look, we can save the changes by clicking on the Save changes button.

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