Product overview
BMC Helix Dashboards offers unified reporting and gives you a consolidated view of data from applications across your environment. The consolidated view of dashboards helps you perform tasks such as responding to issues quickly so that system downtime is minimized. You can create, export, and share interactive and customizable dashboards with users within or outside your environment. You can also improve the efficiency of your system by monitoring the key performance metrics.
BMC Helix Dashboards is a part of the BMC Helix solution. Built on a microservices-based architecture, it is available both as a SaaS service and a container-based on-premises deployment. You access BMC Helix Dashboards from BMC Helix Portal, which is the launchpad to your licensed BMC Helix services.
You can view data from the following products:
The following video (2.36) provides a high-level introduction to the product and explains its key capabilities.
BMC Helix Dashboards and Grafana version information
The following table lists the BMC Helix Dashboards versions and the corresponding Grafana versions:
BMC Helix Dashboards version | Grafana version |
|---|---|
| 10.4.2 |
| 9.5.3 |
| 9.5.3 |
| 9.5.3 |
| 9.5.1 |
| 9.3.0 |
| 9.2.2 |
| 9.0.2 |
| 8.4.5 |
| 8.3.3 |
| 8.2.5 |
BMC Helix Dashboards key capabilities
Capability | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Collect data from various BMC Helix solutions and provides a consolidated view in the form of interactive dashboards. | |
| Use out-of-the-box dashboards to quickly visualize and analyze data in your environment. | |
Configure dashboards | Configure dashboards, panels, and queries to gain insight into your data. You can also configure a time range for the data and explore a query to troubleshoot it. | |
| Use dashboard variables as placeholders for values that can be used in queries and panel titles. By using variables, you can filter the dashboard's data to reflect the desired value. | |
| Schedule automatic distribution of dashboard reports through email or FTP server on specific days of the week, month, or a year. A tenant administrator can access the report from email or the FTP server according to the schedule to analyze the data. | |
| Automate dashboard queries by creating calculated fields. By using the calculated fields, you can avoid writing manual queries for your dashboards. | |
Restrict dashboard permissions | Restrict viewing, and access to a dashboard in your environment. |
