Recreate custom AppOptics dashboards in SolarWinds Observability SaaS

SolarWinds Observability SaaS includes pre-built system dashboards and custom dashboards to provide insight into the data you are observing. If you are migrating from AppOptics, you can recreate your custom dashboards in SolarWinds Observability SaaS. You can create a standard dashboard to see a tailored set of widgets showing metric data for selected entities, or create an analysis dashboard, which can be used to perform an analysis by vertically comparing metric time series in a single view.

See the following sections for information about the differences between SolarWinds Observability SaaS and AppOptics dashboards.

Additional features available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS dashboards

SolarWinds Observability SaaS dashboards include the following features, which are not available in AppOptics:

• When you are selecting a metric to display on a widget, metrics are filtered to include only the metrics supported by the selected entity type, making it easier to find the right metric.

• While you are creating a dashboard, the widget tray displays the available widget types. You can easily add widgets by dragging and dropping them from the tray.

• Additional types of widgets are available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS. SolarWinds Observability SaaS and AppOptics both offer the following types of widgets:

  • Line
  • Stacked Area
  • KPI (Big Number)

  SolarWinds Observability SaaS offers the following additional types:

  • Stacked Bar
  • Pie
  • Donut
  • Vertical Bar
  • Horizontal Bar
  • Gauge
  • Table

  

• The Table widget shows the top x entities ranked by the metric you specify.

• Like Big Number widgets in AppOptics, KPI widgets in SolarWinds Observability SaaS can be color-coded to reflect thresholds. In addition, line charts display color-coded bands based on thresholds when you hover over the Y-axis.

  Bands can be horizontal to show the threshold ranges:

  

  Or they can be vertical to highlight instances when thresholds were exceeded:

  

• The Compare Time Periods feature adds the ability to compare data between current and past time periods on line charts across SolarWinds Observability SaaS, including dashboards. In AppOptics, this feature is available only for services.

Features not currently available

The following AppOptics dashboard features are not currently available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS:

• The ability to share an external link to a dashboard

• The ability to embed a SolarWinds Observability SaaS chart within an external webpage

• Widget configuration settings like metric display name and additional Y-axes

• The ability to mark a dashboard as a favorite

• Snapshot

• Advanced aggregation methods in KPI widgets, such as maximum of the averages

• Saved filter sets with the ability to load a dashboard with the same filter set applied