Dashboards provide a visual overview of your device environment, helping you quickly identify trends, issues, and important metrics across managed devices.
Instead of reviewing raw data, dashboards present information through charts, widgets, and summary indicators, making it easier to understand the overall health and compliance of your environment.
Dashboards act as a starting point for monitoring and investigation, allowing you to quickly identify areas that may require attention
The Default Dashboard
When opening the Dashboards section, you will first see the Default Dashboard.
The Default Dashboard provides a high-level overview of key metrics across your device estate. These metrics help you quickly assess the health and compliance of their environment.
Typical information displayed on the Default Dashboard includes:
Device compliance status
Operating system distribution
Patch status
Warranty coverage
Device issues and configuration problems
Department-level compliance insights
This dashboard provides a centralised view of important operational metrics, allowing you to quickly identify trends or potential problems.
If deeper analysis is required, you can use Query Hub to explore the detailed data behind these metrics.
The Default Dashboard provides a high-level overview of key device metrics across your environment.
Understanding Dashboard Widgets
Dashboards are composed of widgets, each displaying a specific dataset or metric.
Widgets present data using visual formats such as:
Pie charts
Bar charts
Summary counters
Issue tracking indicators
These visualisations allow you to quickly understand the current state of their environment and identify patterns or anomalies.
By combining multiple widgets in a single view, dashboards provide a comprehensive overview of device health, compliance, and operational metrics.
Dashboards combine multiple widgets to monitor compliance, operating systems, device issues, and other key metrics.
Using Dashboards to Identify Issues
Dashboards are designed to provide immediate insights into the health and compliance of your device environment.
For example, the Compliance summary widget quickly shows the percentage of devices that are compliant. If the compliance rate drops, you can immediately investigate which devices require attention.
The Compliance Breakdown by Department chart helps identify whether certain departments are experiencing more compliance issues than others, making it easier to target remediation efforts.
The Top Issues widget highlights the most common problems across the environment, such as configuration issues, compliance failures, or application problems.
Charts such as Devices by OS and OS Patch Status help you identify devices running outdated operating systems or missing important patches.
The Warranty Coverage chart provides visibility into device warranty status, helping organizations identify devices that may need replacement or hardware lifecycle planning.
Hovering over dashboard charts reveals detailed metrics about the displayed data.
When deeper investigation is required, you can use Query Hub to explore the detailed device data behind these metrics and identify the specific devices affected.
Creating Custom Dashboards
In addition to the Default Dashboard, you can create custom dashboards tailored to your monitoring needs.
Custom dashboards allow you to combine different widgets into a single view, helping you focus on the metrics that matter most in your environment.
For example, you might create dashboards for:
Security monitoring
Compliance tracking
Patch and OS monitoring
Hardware lifecycle management
Department-specific device monitoring
VIP device monitoring
This flexibility allows you to build dashboards that support different operational and reporting needs.
Building a Custom Dashboard
To create a new dashboard:
Navigate to the Dashboards section.
Select Create Dashboard.
Enter a name for the dashboard.
Add widgets to display the metrics you want to monitor.
Once created, you can modify dashboards at any time by adding, removing, or rearranging widgets.
Adding Widgets
When adding widgets to a dashboard, you have two options:
Gallery Widgets
Gallery widgets are pre-built widgets provided by Eido. These allow you to quickly add common metrics such as device counts, compliance status, issue tracking, or device distribution charts.
They are organised into categories such as Metrics, Charts, Tables, and Breakdowns, making it easy to add useful insights to your dashboard in just a few clicks.
The Widget Gallery provides a collection of ready-made widgets covering common device metrics and insights.
Custom Widgets
Custom widgets allow you to create your own visualisations using the Query Hub query builder.
With custom widgets you can choose:
The dataset you want to analyse
Filters to refine the data
Grouping and aggregation options
The visualisation type (table, bar chart, pie chart, or tile)
This gives you the flexibility to build dashboards that answer specific operational or reporting questions in your environment.
Custom widgets allow you to build your own visualisations using the Query Hub query builder.
Gallery widgets provide quick access to common insights, while custom widgets allow you to build tailored visualisations powered by Query Hub. Combining both helps you create dashboards that are both informative and flexible.
Example Custom Dashboard
Below is an example of a custom dashboard combining several widgets to monitor device compliance, operating system distribution, device manufacturers, and encryption status.
Example Custom Dashboard
This type of dashboard allows you to monitor key metrics in one place and quickly identify trends or potential issues across your environment.
You can also choose whether to share the dashboard with other users or keep it private. Use the Share Dashboard toggle when creating or editing the dashboard to control its visibility.
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