Through our UI you can build and share tailored user-friendly charts and visualizations. Go to our dashboard capability to gather and chart the specific data you want to see, the way you want to see it, from anywhere in our platform.
Why it matters
With our dashboards you can customize and understand the data you collect. Explore your data and correlate connected sources with charts and quickly learn the state of your system and applications for faster, more efficient troubleshooting.
Use dashboards to:
Drive insight with custom, high-density interactive visualizations with a consistent UI.
Chart all the events and attributes from everywhere across our platform. For more information, see Data collection.
Add custom attributes or send custom event types to most events in order to better understand your business, and see specific details about how your customers interact with your platform, such as page views, host transactions, etc.
In the dashboards index, you can view all the dashboards and data apps associated with your New Relic account. You can also view the popular pre-built dashboards.
Select the + Create a dashboard button located at the top-right corner of the dashboards index.
Select the Create a new dashboard option.
Name your dashboard. Names are searchable, so we recommend giving a meaningful name using words that will help you locate your dashboard easily. For example, you can use the name of your service or application.
Select the account the dashboard belongs to. Choose carefully because this action can't be modified.
Select the permissions you want for your dashboard. The Edit - everyone in account permissions are selected by default. Later, you can change them from the settings menu once you access the dashboard.
Press Create to continue, or Back to return to the index.
Click the + Add widget button or click inside one of the quadrants to add a new widget. There are 2 options:
Add a chart, where you need to use the query builder.
Add text, images, or links, where you'll add your widget using our markdown editor.
Alternatively, you can also create a new dashboard:
Name your dashboard. The duplicated dashboard is named like the original dashboard followed by the word "copy". For example, if you duplicate a dashboard named this is my dashboard, the duplicate will be created as this is my dashboard copy. You can edit the name and change it.
Select the account the dashboard belongs to. Choose carefully because this action can't be modified.
Select the permissions you want for your dashboard. The Edit - everyone in account permissions are selected by default. Later, you can change them from the settings menu once you access the dashboard.
Press Create to continue, or Cancel to return to the index.
You'll see a short message at the bottom-right corner to inform you that the dashboard has been created. You'll see 2 buttons, Open and Dismiss.
Tip
The index displays dashboards according to sorting. To quickly find your duplicated dashboard, sort the dashboards by creation date. The new dashboard appears on top.
Click the icon of the dashboard you want to delete and select the Delete option.
You can only delete a dashboard if you created it, or if it has Edit - everyone in account permissions. For more information, see the permissions information.
You can also delete a dashboard from the settings menu of a dashboard.
You can import a dashboard as JSON when you want to modify an out-of-the-box dashboard at the code level. For example, if you want to create a custom dashboard by merging two existing dashboards together, you can modify a base dashboard’s JSON and then import it back to New Relic.
Open an existing dashboard’s JSON by click the ..., then select Copy JSON.
Go back to the Dashboards page.
In the top-right corner, click Import dashboard.
Paste your JSON code.
Choose the account and permission settings for the dashboard. You can’t change the account once you’ve set it, but you can change the permissions at any time.
Click Save.
Clicking the star icon next to a dashboard toggles on or off the favorites. When you click it, the icon turns yellow. When you favorite a dashboard, it's grouped with other favorite dashboards at the top of the list.
To remove a dashboard from your favorites, select the star icon again.
You can search dashboards by dashboard name, tags, and author using the search box above the index.
You can also sort the dashboards in the index. By default, dashboards you edited recently are at the top of the index in both the favorited and non-favorited sections. To change this order, you can sort both sections by any of the columns in the index, your most recent sort is displayed next time you access New Relic.
Click the icon of the dashboard you want to see its metadata and tags and select the See metadata & tags option.
Dashboard permissions
Dashboards have three types of permissions:
Edit - everyone in account: All users have full rights to the dashboard.
Read-only - everyone in account: All users are able to see the dashboard, but only you've full rights to work with the dashboard. Other users can access the dashboard but are not able to edit or delete it, although they can duplicate it.
Private: Only you can see the dashboard. Everything but the metadata is hidden.
When you create a dashboard using the Create a dashboard button or by duplicating another dashboard, it will have Edit - everyone in account rights by default. Later, you can change them from the settings menu once you access the dashboard.
Create and manage dashboards via API
You can use our NerdGraph API to create and manage dashboards. Our API gives you access to more features than the UI: for example, you can create dashboards with data from multiple accounts.
You can also add tags with NerdGraph. You can filter your dashboards using tags, which can be helpful to identify users, accounts, locations, and more.
Tip
Do you use Datadog to monitor your infrastructure and want to try out New Relic's monitoring capabilities for free? See our guide on how to migrate from Datadog to learn how.
