Manage and pivot from dashboard cards

Learn about additional workflows you can start from your dashboard cards.

Hover on any dashboard the click the vertical ellipsis icon () to access additional options. The options differ slightly depending on whether you are viewing or editing your dashboard.

OptionDescriptionAvailable when viewing dashboard?Available when editing dashboard?
Fill areaThis is a formatting option that makes the card fill the entire width of the available space.NoYes
Edit in definitionEdit the underlying OPAL query of the card. This is not the same as just editing the card, where you can change the visual representation and some basic query parameters.NoYes
Open in WorksheetOpen the card in a new Worksheet. See Create and share Worksheets.YesNo
Pivot to an ExplorerIn this example, we see Open in Log Explorer because the data powering the card is log data. If the data was metrics data, the pivot option would be Open in Metrics Explorer.YesNo
Edit cardOpen the dashboard card for editing.YesNo
Add card linkAdd a link from this card to another dashboard.NoYes
Manage card linksView the links configured for this card.NoYes
DuplicateMake a copy of this card in the same dashboard.NoYes
Copy definitionCopy the card definition to the clipboard. Then, from the same dashboard or any other dashboard, click Add card, then select Paste in the Objects category.YesYes
Copy as imageCopy the current state of the card as a PNG image that you can paste into any document.YesNo
Create a monitorCreate a Monitor based on the data in the card. Observe by Snowflake detects the computations used in the card and automatically selects the best Monitor type for you. SeeYesYes
Hide cardHide the card so that the card is not visible on the dashboard. To make the card visible again, click Hidden to view the hidden dashboards, then click + for the card to want to make visible.NoYes
DeleteDelete the card.NoYes

Pivot from dashboard card context menus

The data in dashboard cards can also be used to pivot or drill down for further analysis or investigation.

For example, we can hover on the Node CPU Utilization Over Time card and click on any dot in the line chart, or any of the chart labels to access a context menu. Here, we click on a dot in the line chart:

You can pivot to other areas of Observe by Snowflake and start new workflows from the options in the context menu. The following sections contain some examples.

Set as filter

Click Set as filter to push the selection to a matching dashboard parameter. In our dashboard, we have configured a correlation tag parameter, and a multi-value parameter. If you select MV Param Namespace, the value of the selected dot is pushed to the multi-value parameter, thereby filtering other cards on the dashboard.

Focus series

Click Focus series to reduce visual clutter and show the data for just the selected time series.

Click Remove focus to return to the original view.

Pivot by selecting a correlation tag

For cards that contain multiple tags, the context menu lists the tags so that you can easily pivot based on a specific tag value. For example, the Events over time by Namespace, Cluster, Prod card:

Each field has its own sub menu. For example, you can over on the k8s.cluster.name field to pivot based on the value of that field and carry the value forward when you pivot.



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