Go to Dashboards and find the End User Experiences dashboard group.
Click the three dots on the top right to open the dashboard menu, and select Save As, and include your team name and initials in the dashboard name.
Save to the dashboard group that matches your email address. Now you have your own copy of this dashboard to customize!
We have some good charts in our dashboard, but let’s add a few more.
Go to Dashboards by clicking the dasboard icon on the left side of the screen. Find the Browser app health dashboard and scroll to the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) chart. Click the chart actions icon to open the flyout menu, and click “Copy” to add this chart to your clipboard.
Now you can continue to add any other charts to your clipboard by clicking the “add to clipboard” icon.
When you have collected the charts you want on your dashboard, click the “create” icon on the top right. You might need to reload the page if you were looking at charts in another browser tab.
Click the “Paste charts” menu option.
Now you are able to resize and edit the charts as you’d like!
Click the chart actions icon and select Open to edit the chart.
Remove the existing Test signal.
Click Add filter and type test: *yourInitials*. This will use a wildcard match so that all of the tests you have created that contain your initials (or any string you decide) will be pulled into the chart.
Click into the functions to see how adding and removing dimensions changes how the data is displayed. For example, if you want all of your test location data rolled up, remove that dimension from the function.
Change the chart name and description as appropriate, and click “Save and close” to commit your changes or just “Close” to cancel your changes.
Seeing the visualization of our KPIs is great. What’s better? KPIs in context with events! Overlaying events on a dashboard can help us more quickly understand if an event like a deployment caused a change in metrics, for better or worse.
Your instructor will push a condition change to the workshop application. Click the event marker on any of your dashboard charts to see more details.
In the dimensions, we can see more details about this specific event. If we click the event record, we can mark for deletion if needed.
We can also see a history of events in the event feed by clicking the icon on the top right of the screen, and selecting Event feed.
Again, we can see details about recent events in this feed.
We can also add new events in the GUI or via API. To add a new event in the GUI, click the New event button.
Name your event with your team name, initials, and what kind of event it is (deployment, campaign start, etc). Choose a timestamp, or leave as-is to use the current time, and click “Create”.
Now, we need to make sure our new event is overlaid in this dashboard. Wait a minute or so (refresh the page if needed) and then search for the event in the Event overlay field.
If your event is within the dashboard time window, you should now see it overlaid in your charts. Click “Save” to make sure your event overlay is saved to your dashboard!
Want to add context to that bug ticket, or show your manager how your change improved app performance? Seeing observability data in context with events not only helps with troubleshooting, but also helps us communicate with other teams.