IT Dashboards
IT Dashboards have accumulated a bit of a mixed record: a good dashboard supported by clear policies and procedures can improve the quality of services delivered and make business and technology decisions easier. But even the best dashboards are somewhat myopic, and badly designed dashboards can lead to complacency, poor communication and eventually overlooked issues, degradations or outages.
From the beginning, Monolith’s dashboards have been characterized by their ease-of-use. With our custom dashboard engine, customers started with a blank page and could drag-and-drop event and performance icons and graphs, linking icons to any availability indicator, performance metric or event filter they prefer. The icons and the parameters they represent can be displayed on any backdrop, map or branding theme. This open design allows for true end-to-end monitoring, and gives customers the flexibility to choose their own KPIs while avoiding onerous development requirements. Want to show all of the infrastructure underlying a service, from fiber to routers to servers, in terms of availability, link status, utilization and trending on a single dashboard? No problem. If you can measure it or discover it, you can add it to your dashboard. We’ve seen untrained, un-coached Monolith users develop sophisticated global technology dashboards in a few hours.
With our latest release, Monolith has worked with customers to deliver the next iteration of visualization enhancements — dashboard mashups. Now, in addition to the custom display you built to portray your technology or service infrastructure, you can add a frame to display recent trouble tickets from your ticketing system, a frame for configuration management, and another showing the local weather or news. Combine or consolidate any information displays to give you all the information you need on a single heads up display.
Nobody can anticipate the precise information you need to monitor your technology environment. Your visualization tools need to be flexible and easy to implement. Check out our recent webinar with Oracle to see an example of this technology in action, or contact us to learn more about this important aspect of your monitoring strategy.
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