Building a dashboard quickly from marketplace content

BMC community contributors create dashboards that are available in the Marketplace Content folder in BMC Helix Dashboards for public use.

• Marketplace content dashboards are created by the BMC community members. These dashboards are not tested for functionality and performance. Thus, we recommend you to create a copy of these dashboards and customize according to your business requirements.
• Marketplace content folder includes dashboards for various BMC Helix solutions. You will see all the available dashboards under this folder irrespective of the solutions configured in your environment.
• BMC has been working on automating the process of new content submission to BMC Helix Dashboards by BMC customers and communities. In the meanwhile, contact BMC support to submit your content for the Marketplace content folder.

The following image displays a dashboard from the Marketplace Content folder.

You can copy the marketplace content dashboards and use it in your production environment. However, you can also use these dashboards as templates to quickly create dashboards for your requirements. For example, the ABC company uses Kubernetes to deploy its services. Jordan has recently joined the company as a network operations center operator. Jordan needs to quickly create a dashboard to obtain data about factors such as CPU and memory utilization of their Kubernetes cluster. However, Jordan is not well-versed with BMC Helix Dashboards. To get a dashboard created quickly, Jordan leverages a community-created dashboard for Kubernetes. Jordan views the dashboards in the Marketplace Content folder. He sees the K8s Container dashboard, which will help retrieve the data that he needs, so he creates a copy that he can further customize.

Jordan can also use any other marketplace content dashboard from the following list and create a customized dashboard according to his business requirements:

To view the marketplace dashboards

1. From the navigation menu , click Dashboards.
2. Click Browse and open the Marketplace Content folder to view the available dashboards.

To customize the marketplace dashboards

1. Open a marketplace dashboard, for example, K8s Pods. 

2. Click the Settings icon  and click Save as.

   Copy tags

   By default, the Copy tags option is disabled. If you want to copy the tags for the new custom dashboard, you can enable this option.

   

3. Save the dashboard with a different name and customize it to suit your requirements.