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. You can copy the marketplace content dashboards and use them in your production environment. You can also use these dashboards as templates to quickly create dashboards for your requirements. 

  • 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 them 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.  

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You can copy the marketplace content dashboards and use it in your production environment. You can also use these dashboards as templates to quickly create dashboards for your requirements. 

Scenario

The ABC company uses Kubernetes to deploy its services. Jordan recently joined the company as a network operations center operator. Jordan was asked to quickly create a dashboard to obtain data about factors such as CPU and memory utilization of their Kubernetes cluster. However, Jordan was not well-versed with BMC Helix Dashboards.

To create a dashboard quickly, Jordan decided to leverage the community-created dashboards. He viewed the dashboards in the Marketplace Content folder and observed that the K8s Container dashboard could retrieve the needed data. So, he created a copy of the dashboard and customized it.

List of Marketplace Content dashboards


Important

  • Do not edit or delete the Marketplace Content dashboards. You can copy a dashboard and then make changes to the copy.
  • Do not move the dashboards to any other folder.

To view the Marketplace Content dashboards

  1. From the navigation menu menu_icon.png, click Dashboards.
  2. Search for the Marketplace Content folder and select it.
    The list of Marketplace Content dashboards is displayed.

To customize the Marketplace Content dashboards

  1. Open a Marketplace Content dashboard, for example, K8s Pods.
  2. Click the Settings icon dashboard_settings_icon.png and click Save as.
    By default, the Copy tags option is disabled. To copy the tags for the new custom dashboard, enable this option.
  3. Save the dashboard with a different name and customize it to suit your requirements.

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Tips

When you copy the dashboard containing a dashboard link with the tag condition as shown in the following image, the new custom dashboard appears as a link on the original dashboard. If you do not want the new dashboard link on the original dashboard, do one of the following: 

  • Disable the Copy tags option.
  • Remove the specific tags that do not interest you before saving the new dashboard. 

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