Metrics Data dashboard

As a tenant administrator, editor, or viewer, you can use the Metrics Data dashboard to view the performance metrics data of the devices in your environment and get an insight into the their health.

This dashboard uses the BMC Helix data source and the Metric query type.

For instructions on creating or editing dashboards, see Configuring-dashboards-panels-and-queries. For information about dashboard concepts, see Setting-up-dashboards.

The following image shows the Metrics Data dashboard with sample data:

To view the dashboard

Do the following:

1. On the left navigation pane, hover over Dashboards  and click Browse.

2. Click the Operations Management folder and then click Metrics Data.

   Tip: Quick access from the home page

   To quickly open the dashboard from the home page, mark it as a favorite by using the star icon. Additionally, after you open a dashboard, it is available under Recently viewed dashboards on the home page. 

Panels in the Metric Data dashboard

1. Device Name: Shows the list from where you can select a device from this list.
2. Event: Shows the toggle key that you can use to hide or show the event annotation data on the panels. Annotation data is plotted as a dotted red line on a panel.
   If you selected to show the event annotation data, you can see the annotation points plotted on the graphs in the panels that use graph for data visualization. You can hover over an annotation point on a graph to view event details:
   
3. Panels
   • Memory, CPU, Disk, and Network:
     The panels that use percentage visualization show the memory, CPU, disk, and network usage percentage for the selected device during the selected time period.
     The panels that use graphical visualization show a graph of the memory, CPU, disk, and network usage for the selected device during the selected time period.
   • Events: Shows the events that arrived on the selected device in the selected time period.

1. Device Name: Shows the list from where you can select a device from this list.
2. Event: Shows the toggle key that you can use to hide or show the event annotation data on the panels. Annotation data is plotted as a dotted red line on a panel.
   If you selected to show the event annotation data, you can see the annotation points plotted on the graphs in the panels that use graph for data visualization. You can hover over an annotation point on a graph to view event details:
   
3. Panels
   • Memory, CPU, Disk, and Network:
     The panels that use percentage visualization show the memory, CPU, disk, and network usage percentage for the selected device during the selected time period.
     The panels that use graphical visualization show a graph of the memory, CPU, disk, and network usage for the selected device during the selected time period.
   • Events: Shows the events that arrived on the selected device in the selected time period.

To send metric data to BMC Helix Operations Management by using the REST API

Refer to the following video (2.25) to see how you can send metric data to BMC Helix Operations Management by using the REST API:

 https://youtu.be/jjnqIpi-i80