About Dashboard

The Dashboard is the site landing page and the main visual overview for the current AlloyScan site. It brings together site health, audit freshness, inventory trends, and selected Analytics charts in dashboards that can be reviewed, customized, and saved.

How the Dashboard works

A dashboard is a saved layout of widgets. A site starts with one default dashboard, and Administrators can create additional dashboards with Save As.

A widget is a visual block on the dashboard, such as Site health or an Analytics chart.
The dashboard selector lets you switch between available dashboards.
The default dashboard is marked with a star and opens automatically when you navigate to Dashboard.
Dashboard actions let Administrators rename a dashboard, set it as default, or delete it when deletion is available.

Dashboard widgets summarize inventory, software, and audit data. Site health also checks scan results, component status, and license usage.

Working with widgets

Widgets can include Analytics widgets based on saved Analytics charts and 18 ready-made System widgets: Site health plus 17 additional system presets. System widgets are available only on dashboards and do not appear in Analytics. They cannot be fully customized, although some provide settings specific to their purpose.

On the system Dashboard, Site health is required and stays first. On custom dashboards, including copies and dashboards you set as your default, Administrators can add, move, or remove it. See Site health for its status, usage summary, and check settings.

Administrators can customize the current dashboard. Select Edit (the gear icon in the upper-right corner) to enter edit mode. You can then:

Add widgets from the widget palette.
Drag widgets to change their position.
Resize widgets in the layout.
Remove widgets from the current dashboard.
Open an Analytics widget's source chart when the widget provides that action.
Use Undo to discard unsaved layout edits.
Use Save to persist the layout.
Use Done to leave edit mode.
Use Save As to create another dashboard from the current layout.

The Add widget panel groups Analytics widgets by their saved visualization type: Chart, Counters, or Table. A type appears in the panel only when at least one Analytics chart uses that visualization; empty types are not shown. System contains the ready-made AlloyScan widgets. Drag an available widget from the panel to add it to the dashboard. A widget that is already on the current dashboard remains in the panel, but appears dimmed and cannot be added again. You can also open an Analytics widget in Analytics directly from the panel.

Analytics widgets use sorting and display limits saved with their source chart. To adjust these, open the chart in Analytics; see Analytics widget sorting and limits.

Saved dashboard changes persist after reload.

Drill-down

Many dashboard widgets support drill-down. Click a slice, row, or counter to open the relevant view. Site health issue links can also open Network or Admin Center pages. Health counts refresh periodically, so the records shown after following a link may reflect more recent changes.

Role differences

Administrators can view dashboards and customize dashboard layouts.
Users can view dashboards and switch between available dashboards, but cannot edit the dashboard layout.

Layout requirements

Dashboard editing needs enough horizontal space for the layout canvas and the widget palette. If the browser window is too narrow, AlloyScan disables layout editing and asks you to increase the window width before adding, moving, resizing, or removing widgets.

Key distinctions

Dashboard vs Analytics. The Dashboard is where you monitor saved visual summaries. Analytics is where you build and save charts that can later appear as Analytics widgets.
Dashboard vs widget. A dashboard stores a layout. A widget is one visual item inside that layout.