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 fixed 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.
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. Apart from the period selector in Devices not audited and Recently added software, system-widget content and settings are fixed. Administrators can still add, move, resize, or remove a system widget as part of each dashboard layout.
Widget interactions
| Interaction | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Click a slice, list row, or counter | Opens the corresponding Inventory, Software, or Network view with a matching filter or target view. |
| Drag from widget palette | Adds an available system or Analytics widget to the current dashboard in edit mode. |
| Drag on dashboard | Changes the widget's position in the current dashboard. |
| Resize | Changes the widget's size in the current dashboard. |
| Remove | Removes the widget from the current 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.