Configure your own Dashboard with custom visualizations

Saving new dashboards or visualizations#

Standard dashboards provided by Bitergia offer a lot of information, however, you may wish to create your own visualizations or/and dashboards or edit some of the existing ones. To do that, you just need to save it properly to avoid Bitergia overwriting your work. It could happen if you store your work by overwriting some standard dashboard or visualization.

The steps you should follow to ensure your work is safely saved are:

Click on Edit
Click on Save
Make sure Save as new dashboard or Save as new visualization toggle button is on.
Give your dashboard or visualization a new name that starts with C_, this convention will allow us to identify them as your custom dashboard or visualization. For Dashboards, Bitergia ones always contain the word Bitergia within the description text.

Save Dashboard

Editing visualizations#

Login to the dashboards.
Click on the Edit tab in the top right corner (gears should appear in the top right corner of each visualization).
Click on the gear icon of the target visualization.
Click on Edit visualization.
Follow the saving new dashboards or visualizations instructions if you are editing an existing dashboard/visualization not originally created by you. If you are modifying your own object, just overwrite it by clicking on the button Save in the top right corner.

Save Visualization

Renaming visualizations#

Login to the dashboards.
Click on the Edit tab in the top right corner (gears should appear in the top right corner of each visualization).
Click on the gear icon of the target visualization.
Click on Customize panel and change the title.
Once done, follow the saving new dashboards or visualizations instructions if you are editing an existing dashboard/visualization not originally created by you. If you are modifying your own object, just overwrite it by clicking on the button Save in the top right corner.

Edit the name of a visualization

Creating visualizations#

Login to the dashboards.
Click on the Edit tab in the top right corner.
Click on Create new.
Select a visualization type.
Select a source (index pattern) to create your visualization on top of it.
Configure the visualization (metrics, buckets...).
Once you have finised you visualization, click on Update and then Save.
Type the name of the new visualization and click on Save and return. Remember to start the name of your custom visualization with C_.

Create a new visualization

Editing a dashboard#

Login to the dashboards.
Go to the target dashboard.
Click on the Edit tab in the top right corner.
Click on the Add tab in the top right corner.
Create a new visualization or load an existing one.
Once done, the visualization will be visible on the dashboard.
Move/resize the visualizations in the dashboard, set filters and time picker (optionally).
Once done, follow the saving new dashboards or visualizations instructions if you are editing an existing dashboard/visualization not originally created by you. If you are modifying your own object, just overwrite it by clicking on the button Save in the top right corner.

Edit a dashboard

Creating dashboards#

Login to the dashboards.
Open the left-side sidebar.
Go to the Dashboard section.
Click on the Edit tab in the top right corner.
Select Add an existing or create a new visualization.
Select the visualizations that you want to add.
Configure using the time picker the perior that you want to visualize.
Once done, click on the button Save on the top right corner.
Set the title and description of the new dashboard. Remember to start the name of your custom dashboard with C_.

Create a new visualization