Dashboards

The CloudGuard Dashboard provides summary and aggregates data from different CloudGuard data sources, such as Events, Protected Assets, Intelligence, and external integrations such as Tenable.io, Serverless, and KubernetesClosed Kubernetes, often abbreviated as “K8s”, orchestrates containerized applications to run on a cluster of hosts..

The dashboard shows widgets, which show specific CloudGuard statistics, such as alerts or assets. They can be graphical, showing, for example, the issuing of alerts by severity or account, or lists, showing, for example, the top protected asset types in an account.

You can create custom dashboards and set up the layout of widgets in them. You can customize the type of graphical display for widgets, such as pie charts, histograms, and gauges.

The Dashboards feature:

  • At-a-glance view of your cloud posture, assets, and alerts

  • Customizable layout and graphical widgets

  • Creating and sharing multiple, customized dashboards

  • Information display at the Organizational level

  • Click-thru interface to show more detail in applicable CloudGuard pages

Home Dashboard

A preconfigured default Dashboard is included in CloudGuard. This is the Home Dashboard shown as the CloudGuard home page. It shows a broad summary of your CloudGuard statistics. You cannot change the preconfigured dashboards.

Viewing and Configuring Dashboards

  1. Navigate to the Overview and select Home Dashboard to open the default Dashboard.

  2. Select one of the default Dashboards from the list in the top right corner, which includes all the Dashboards you create.

  3. Click an item in a widget to open the related page in CloudGuard and show more details.

  4. Widgets with no data may not be shown based on the settings for the widget (see below Adding Widgets to a Dashboard). You can override this and show all widgets. Select Show All, in the options bar at the top of the dashboard, to show all widgets.

You can create custom dashboards and include widgets of your choice to show custom information. You can share these dashboards with other users.

  1. On the Dashboard page, click Add Dashboard in the options menu.

  2. Enter a name for the dashboard. Click Public if it is necessary to share the dashboard with other users on the same CloudGuard account. A new dashboard page appears, without any widgets.

  3. Follow the steps below to add widgets and customize the layout of the dashboard.

  4. As an alternative, you can clone an existing dashboard, such as the Home dashboard, and make changes to the clone. Open the source dashboard and select Clone Dashboard from the options menu to clone the dashboard.

You can add widgets to custom dashboards, but not to configured dashboards.

  1. In the top right corner of a Dashboard, click Add new widget.

  2. Enter these details for the widget (the details can change based on the widget source and type):

    • Title - A title for the widget that appears at the top of the widget.

    • Source - The type of information to show, such as alerts, assets, events, or compliance statistics.

    • Type - The type of display (pie chart, histogram, etc). This varies based on the source type.

    • Aggregation - The specific information that is shown in the widget. For example, for a widget showing assets, the aggregation is the Asset Type.

    • Size - The size of the widget as it appears on the page, in units. The dashboard page is 8 units wide.

    • Visibility - If the widget is displayed when there is no data for it.

    • Filters - Filter the information shown in the widget to specific accounts, regions, platforms, etc.

    • Description - More information that appears next to the widget title (optional field).

    • Widget Preview - Small example of the widget appearance after you fill in all mandatory fields.

  3. Click Save. The widget appears on the dashboard page.

Change the location and size of widgets on a custom dashboard.

  1. Click the options menu of a widget and then select Settings.

  2. Change settings for the widget such as the size, type, and data source.

  3. Click Save.

To change the location of a widget, move it to a new location.

Save custom dashboards to a list of preferred dashboards. This list appears in the Dashboard menu, for fast selection.

To set a dashboard as preferred, select Pinned from the options menu at the top of the dashboard page.

To set a dashboard as the Default dashboard, select Default from the options menu at the top of the dashboard page. The dashboard you set is saved as default only on the user level. Only one dashboard, built-in or custom, can be the default dashboard. Initially, the Home Dashboard is the default one.