Dashboard Number/Aggregate Widget

What is it?

• A Number/Aggregate widget is a part of a dashboard that can display a single KPI as a number or a histogram (Pie chart)
• Single KPI
• Single KPI but distribution of measures in bins
• Number/Aggregate widgets can color code bins <>= etc
• Number/Aggregate widgets use a TopN on bin or number
• Number/Aggregate widgets support:
• Absolute (value bin)
• Percentage difference
• Baseline and beyond a threshold (post aggregate)
• Grouping by capture metadata in the pie chart. For example, based on server zone

Example

Number, session and capture

Runtime Options

• Click on Number or segment to expand to TopN/drill down
• Hover over histogram (pie) segments for summary
• Hover to Export groupBy data for any post-aggregate bins

Aggregate Widget

Options

Capture Data Source

You can filter and group by capture layer, found in Others tab, to better understand how the traffic or data are separated.

To keep in mind if groupBy Data layers is selected:

• When the widget type is changed in the configuration, the data-layer groupBy is cleared (removed) if the newly selected widget is incompatible.

Authoring Options

Show the creation options for Number/Aggregate widget

Capabilities

• Simple number box to traffic light to complex % beyond a threshold
• Really useful to show how to exceed thresholds and show distribution of measures
• Simple bins are groups of measures. Post aggregate is distribution of measures beyond a threshold (When something is in exception how badly)
• Number/Aggregate boxes can link to other dashboards and support filters
• Beware group by on pie as the number of sets can limit usefulness
• Ability to select groupBy for security datasources. For example, grouping by alerts detection types