# 1 Dashboard
#### Overview
The *Monitoring → Dashboard* section is designed to display summaries of
all the important information.
A dashboard consists of widgets and each widget is designed to display
information of a certain kind and source, which can be a summary, a map,
a graph, the clock, etc.
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Widgets are added and edited in the dashboard editing mode. Widgets are
viewed in the dashboard viewing mode.
While in a single dashboard you can group widgets from various sources
for a quick overview, it is also possible to create several dashboards
containing different sets of overviews and switch between them.
#### Viewing dashboards
To access all configured dashboards, click on the *All dashboards* link
just below the section title.
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To view a single dashboard, click on its name in the list of all
dashboards.
To delete one or several dashboards, mark the checkboxes of the
respective dashboards and click on *Delete* below the list.
#### Creating a dashboard
When viewing all dashboards, you can click on the *Create dashboard*
button to create a new dashboard:
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Initially the dashboard is empty. You can add widgets to the dashboard
by:
- clicking on the *Add widget* button
- clicking on the *Add a new widget* link in the widget placeholder
Click on the *Save changes* button to save the dashboard. If you click
on *Cancel*, the dashboard will not be created.
#### Adding widgets
To add widget to a dashboard:
- Click on the *Add widget* button/link in dashboard editing mode
- Select the *Type* of widget
- Enter widget parameters
- Click on *Add*
The following widgets can be added to a dashboard:
- [Action
log](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#action_log)
- [Clock](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#clock)
- [Data
overview](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#data_overview)
- [Discovery
status](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#discovery_status)
- [Favourite
graphs](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#favourite_graphs)
- [Favourite
maps](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#favourite_maps)
- [Favourite
screens](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#favourite_screens)
- [Graph](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#graph)
- [Problem
hosts](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#problem_hosts)
- [Map](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#map)
- [Map navigation
tree](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#map_navigation_tree)
- [Plain
text](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#plain_text)
- [Problems](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#problems)
- [System
information](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#system_information)
- [Problems by
severity](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#problems_by_severity)
- [Trigger
overview](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#trigger_overview)
- [URL](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#url)
- [Web
monitoring](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#web_monitoring)
In dashboard editing mode widgets can be moved around the dashboard by
clicking on the widget title bar and dragging it to a new location.
Also, you can click on the following buttons within the widget to:
-  -
edit a widget;
-  -
remove a widget
Click on *Save changes* for the dashboard to make any changes to the
widgets permanent.
#### Dynamic widgets
When
[configuring](/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets)
some of the widgets:
- Graphs (simple and custom)
- Plain text
- URL
there is an extra option called *Dynamic item*. You can check this box
to make the widget dynamic - i.e. capable of displaying different
content based on the selected host.
Now, when saving the dashboard, you will notice that two new dropdowns
have appeared atop the dashboard for selecting the host group/host:
Thus you have a widget, which can display content that is based on the
data from the host that is selected in the dropdown. The benefit of this
is that you do not need to create extra widgets just because, for
example, you want to see the same graphs containing data from various
hosts.
#### Viewing and editing a dashboard
When viewing a single dashboard, the following options are available:
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||<|Switch to the dashboard editing mode.|
||<|Open the action menu.|
|<|*Sharing*|Edit sharing preferences for the dashboard. Dashboards can be made public or private.
Public dashboards are visible to all users.
Private dashboards are visible only to their owner. Private dashboards can be shared by the owner to other users and user groups.
For details on configuring sharing, see the map [configuration](/manual/config/visualisation/maps/map#sharing) section.|
|^|*Create new*|Create a new dashboard.
First you are prompted to enter general properties of the new dashboard - owner and name. Then, the new dashboard opens in editing mode and you can add widgets.|
|^|*Clone*|Create a new dashboard by copying properties of the existing one.
First you are prompted to enter general properties of the new dashboard - owner and name. Then, the new dashboard opens in editing mode with all the widgets of the original dashboard.|
|^|*Delete*|Delete the dashboard.|
||<|Display dashboard in fullscreen mode.|
||<|Display dashboard in kiosk mode. In this mode only widgets are displayed.|
Editing mode is opened:
- when a new dashboard is being created
- when you click the *Edit dashboard* button for an existing dashboard
In the dashboard editing mode the following options are available:
| | |
|---|---|
||Edit general dashboard properties - name and owner.|
||Add a new widget.|
||Save dashboard changes.|
||Cancel dashboard changes.|
#### Permissions to dashboards
Permissions to dashboards for regular and Zabbix Admin users since
Zabbix 3.4.2 are limited in the following way:
- They can see and clone a dashboard if they have at least READ rights
to it;
- They can edit and delete dashboard only if they have READ/WRITE
rights to it;
- They cannot change the dashboard owner.
Before Zabbix 3.4.2, the rights of Admin level users were not limited in
this way.
##### Host menu
Clicking on a host in the *Problems* widget brings up the host menu. It
includes links to custom scripts, latest data, triggers, inventory,
graphs and screens for the host.
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The host menu is accessible by clicking on a host in several other
frontend sections:
- Monitoring → [Problems](problems)
- Monitoring → [Problems](problems) → Event details
- Monitoring → [Overview](overview) (on *Hosts: left*)
- Monitoring → [Latest data](latest_data)
- Monitoring → [Screens](screens) (in *Host issues* and *Host group
issues* widgets)
- Monitoring → [Maps](maps)
- Reports → [Triggers top
100](/fr/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/reports/triggers_top)
##### Trigger event popup
Rolling a mouse over *Problem-Severity* in the *Problems* widget brings
up the trigger event popup. It includes a list of events and, if
defined, the trigger description and a clickable URL.
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