Dashboard Widgets Reference
Dashboard widgets are visual blocks available to add to saved dashboards. The same widget can be used on more than one dashboard, while each dashboard stores its own widget placement and size. AlloyScan provides Analytics widgets and system widgets.
Widget types
| Type | What it shows | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics widget | A widget based on a saved Analytics chart that can be added to dashboards. | Grouped under Chart, Counters, or Table in the Add widget panel according to its saved visualization type. |
| System widget | A ready-made AlloyScan widget that can be added to dashboards. | 18 system widgets are available outside Analytics: Site health and 17 additional presets. |
Analytics widgets
Analytics widgets make saved Analytics charts available to add to dashboards. The Add widget panel separates them by their saved visualization: graphical Analytics charts appear under Chart, counters under Counters, and Analytics charts that use the Table visualization under Table. A category appears only when at least one Analytics chart uses that visualization. If no matching Analytics charts exist, the category is omitted from the panel.
| Analytics visualization | Dashboard palette category |
|---|---|
| Vertical bar, Horizontal bar, Line, Area, Donut, Pie | Chart |
| Counter | Counters |
| Table | Table |
AlloyScan includes 20 Analytics widgets out of the box. User-created saved Analytics charts also become available to add to dashboards as Analytics widgets.
Create or update user-created charts in Analytics. Manage their placement on each dashboard from Dashboard edit mode.
The Add widget panel includes All widgets and groups Analytics widgets under Chart, Counters, or Table when matching Analytics charts exist. System contains the 18 ready-made system widgets. Add an available widget by dragging it from the panel onto the current dashboard. A widget that is already on that dashboard remains in the panel, but appears dimmed and cannot be added to the same dashboard again. It remains available on other dashboards.
Analytics widget sorting and limits
Analytics widgets use the sorting and item limits saved with their source charts. To configure them, open the chart in Analytics, set the sorting options and Properties > Number of items > Widget limit, then save the chart.
Widget limit accepts values from 1 to 10 and defaults to 10. It limits the number of groups displayed at each grouping level, or rows in Raw data tables. This setting is independent of Analytics limit, so dashboard widgets can show fewer results without affecting the full breakdown in Analytics.
For details on sorting, nested groups, and display limits, see Sorting and display limits.
Out-of-the-box Analytics widgets
| Widget |
|---|
| Devices audited by month |
| Devices by operating system |
| Devices by type |
| Devices by manufacturer |
| SNMP devices by subtype |
| Hypervisors by platform |
| Monitors by manufacturer |
| Network adapters by type |
| Logical disks by type |
| User accounts by status |
| Antivirus products by update status |
| Antivirus products by manufacturer |
| BitLocker volumes by protection status |
| Computers with the most Windows events |
| Event log count by day |
| Event logs by severity |
| Event logs by type |
| Top Windows event signatures |
| AWS resources by type |
| AWS EC2 instances by state |
System widgets
AlloyScan provides 18 system widgets: Site health and 17 additional presets for common inventory, audit, hardware, software, virtualization, update, and security summaries. System widgets are dashboard-only presets available to add to dashboards: they do not appear in Analytics and cannot be opened in or customized with the Analytics chart builder.
System widgets use smart, purpose-specific grouping and presentation logic to keep their results readable. For example, Devices by audit date shows recent audit dates as Today, Yesterday, 2 days ago, and 3 days ago, then combines earlier dates under Older. This grouping is built into the widget rather than configured through Analytics.
The System category contains:
| System widget |
|---|
| Computers by CPU |
| Computers by memory |
| Computers by operating system |
| Computers with free disk space |
| Devices by audit date |
| Devices not audited |
| Domain membership |
| Hardware Aging Analysis |
| Network adapters |
| Private IP ranges |
| Recently added software |
| Security Overview |
| Site health |
| System Uptime Analysis |
| TPM and BitLocker status |
| User Activity Analysis |
| Virtualization Overview |
| Windows updates count |
Each system widget can be added once to each dashboard. Devices not audited and Recently added software have period selectors. Administrators can change widget placement and size, subject to the system Dashboard's Site health requirement.
Site health
Use Site health to identify inventory and audit problems and jump to the affected records. The widget summarizes the site's status as Needs attention, Warnings, or Healthy and lists detected issues.
Select an issue link to open the affected records or the relevant administration page. For Computers never audited, select Reasons to review the affected segments. Select View all issues (N) to expand the issue list.
The bar at the top of Site health shows audit node usage by Computers, Devices, and Cloud resources, plus any Available capacity. Total shows the site's node limit when one is set, or current usage otherwise. Counts of Segments, Audit services, and Agents appear below the bar.
Administrators can configure health checks:
- On Dashboard, select Edit (the gear icon in the upper-right corner).
- In Site health, select Site health settings (the gear icon next to the audit agent download buttons).
- Set Stale after (days) to the age at which inventory is considered stale. The default is 30 days. Enter a whole number from 1 to 3650.
- Under Health checks, select the checks to include. All checks are selected by default. Clearing a check hides it and excludes it from the site status.
- Select Save.
- Select Done to leave Dashboard edit mode.
Site health refreshes every five minutes, so a recent change may take time to appear.
Widget interactions
| Interaction | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Click a slice, list row, or counter | Opens the corresponding Inventory, Software, Network, or Admin Center view. Issue links apply the relevant filters where applicable. |
| Drag from widget palette | Adds an available system or Analytics widget to the current dashboard in edit mode. |
| Drag on dashboard | Changes widget position. Site health stays first on the system Dashboard. |
| Resize | Changes the widget's size in the current dashboard. |
| Remove | Removes the widget. Site health is required on the system Dashboard. |
| Save | Persists dashboard layout changes. |
| Undo | Discards unsaved layout changes. |
| Done | Leaves edit mode. |
Analytics widget actions
In Dashboard edit mode, Analytics widgets expose these actions:
| Action | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Open in Analytics | Opens the widget's source chart in the Analytics editor. |
| See where it is used | Shows the list of dashboards where the widget is used. |
| Remove widget | Removes the widget from the current dashboard. |
Analytics widgets in the widget palette can also be opened in Analytics from the palette.
Constraints
- Dashboard layout editing is available to Administrators.
- Users can view dashboards and switch dashboards, but cannot edit dashboard layouts.
- Dashboard editing requires a wide browser window. If the window is too narrow, AlloyScan disables add, move, resize, and remove actions until the window is wider.
- A widget can appear once on each dashboard and can be added to other dashboards.
- Analytics widgets can be out-of-the-box widgets or widgets based on saved Analytics charts.