Dashboard widget catalog

This panel shows the amount of resources that an enterprise is using in all accessible datacenters, or the selected virtual datacenter.

To view usage and limits:

1. Log in or select or switch to the enterprise
2. Select Virtual datacenters and select a virtual datacenter
   OR select Enterprise

Screenshot: For the current enterprise the chart displays resource usage with soft and hard limits.

 Key:

• Blue shading = used
• Orange line = soft limit
• Orange shading = soft limit exceeded
• Red line = hard limit

Options: Show soft limits; show hard limits; Type selector (enterprise or virtual datacenter); Metrics display, order, and graphic or number only.

The default view for cloud users is Enterprise resources for virtual datacenters only. To display tenant metrics, the user must have the Display enterprise statistics privilege. To display limits, the user must have the Display enterprise limits in statistics privilege.

This widget lists the virtual datacenters of the current enterprise on the platform, including:

• Name
• Location
• Currently running VMs / Total VMs deployed

Options: Provider selector (public cloud providers or private cloud); Provider selection.

To open a virtual datacenter, double-click on the virtual datacenter Name.

This is a list of details of all the virtual appliances in the user's enterprise, including:

• Virtual appliance name
• Currently running VMs / Total VMs deployed

Options: Provider selector (public cloud providers or private cloud); Provider selection; Virtual datacenter selection

To display the virtual datacenter name, hover over the Virtual appliance name.

To open a virtual appliance, double-click on the Virtual appliance name.

By default this is a list of metrics of all the VMs in the platform, including:

• Virtual machine name
• Average CPU
• Average RAM

Options: Provider selector (public cloud providers or private cloud); Provider selection; Virtual datacenter selection; Virtual appliance selection

Color code:

• 0% <= Green <= 60%
• 60% < Orange <= 80%
• 80%  < Red <= 100

To go to the VM, double-click on the VM Name.

This is a condensed view of the Events view logs. It is controlled with the same privileges as the Events view, and it will display events depending on the user's role, privileges and scope.

Options: Severity selector (All, ERROR, INFO, and WARN); Entity selection; Entity name text filter; Last days number filter

Click on an event to display the Event details popup

This is a list of the last VMs deployed by the enterprise on the platform. It can be filtered to display the last VMs deployed by each user. The details include:

• Virtual machine label
• Creation user
• Start date and time
• State

Options: Provider selector (public cloud providers or private cloud); Provider selection

To open the virtual appliance that contains a VM, double-click on the VM icon.

This is a list of the last alerts triggered for the enterprise on the platform. The details include:

• Alert
• Date and time
• Active

The Entity monitoring widget will display the monitoring of a selected metric for a configured VM, VApp, or scaling group.

On the metric display the user can filter and refresh as for other monitoring panels.

The Last bills widget displays the last bills for public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google, and for private cloud. 

To display billing data, the administrator must configure access to billing data from the provider (see Display cloud provider billing data), and the user must have the View bills privilege. 

To view more details of the latest bills, click the link to Show more bills. To display more details, mouse over the chart.

To display the chart in stacked format, click the Stacked button. To display the bill chart in grouped format, click the Grouped button.

To display a bill for a single provider, split by the service categories in the bills, select the provider from the pull down menu.

Options: Last months filter; Default provider filter; Provider selector; Default currency filter; Currency selector; Default chart type; Chart selector 

The Estimated bill widget will display the estimated bill for the current period for public cloud providers such as AWs, Azure, Google, and private cloud. The platform calculates the estimated bill using a linear regression of daily costs for the current period, and the change in spend from the last bill for the selected provider. The display billing data, the user must have the View bills privilege. 

The administrator can configure multiple currencies and conversion factors. See Configure Abiquo UI

Options: Provider selection; Provider filter; Currency selection; Currency filter

This panel shows a graph of the enterprise's VMs deployed in public cloud providers or private cloud. The virtual machines are counted by location (public cloud region or datacenter). To display a more detailed list with a count of VMs in each location, hover over the graph

This panel lists the enterprise's VMs that are deployed in public cloud providers or private cloud. You can filter the list by public cloud provider or private cloud. 

Screenshot: Virtual machines count in private cloud

This widget lists the VMs with usage of RAM or CPU above or below a threshhold in the last 30 days. The statistic can be the average, minimum or maximum. The widget displays the following details:

• Virtual machine Name
• Minimum usage
• Average usage
• Maximum usage

This widget lists the VMs with the highest time deployed on the platform, for VMs that are currently in the ON, OFF or PAUSED states. The panel displays the following details:

• Virtual machine label
• Virtual machine name
• Time deployed
• State

You can filter the display by Username.

Options: Filter minimum number of days

This panel lists the public, floating and NAT IPs that have been reserved by the enterprise but are not in use. It displays the following details:

• IP address
• Network
• Virtual datacenter

To jump to an IP address, double-click on it.

Options: Provider selector (public cloud provider or private clouds); Provider filter.

This panel lists load balancers that have been created by the enterprise in the provider but are not in use. It displays the following details:

• Name
• Algorithm

The Budget widget will display the percentage used of the configured budget with the amount used and total amount. You can create budgets for public cloud providers such as AWs, Azure, Google, and private cloud. 

The Idle volumes widget will display the idle volumes of an enterprise or in the configured virtual datacenter with:

• Volume Name
• Tier
• Total size

This widget displays the amount of storage that an enterprise is using in the storage service levels for the whole platform.

The widget will display the abstract datastore tiers that are enabled and allowed for the enterprise, and disabled tiers.

Screenshot: For the current enterprise the chart displays storage usage by service levels with soft and hard limits.

 Key:

• Blue shading = used
• Orange line = soft limit
• Orange shading = soft limit exceeded
• Red line = hard limit

Options: Name; Show soft limits; show hard limits