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Create a new chaos dashboard

This section will guide you through creating a new chaos dashboard, and creating custom visualizations for various entities of a chaos experiment.

Before you begin​

Refer to overview of chaos dashboards to understand what a chaos dashboard is, and how you can view a predefined chaos dashboard.

Create a new visualization​

To create a new visualization in a dashboard, follow the steps mentioned below.

Step 1: Click Dashboard​

To create a new dashboard, click Dashboard. click-dashboard

Step 2: Specify parameters​

Add values for Folder, Name, and Tags (compulsory). specify-params

Click Continue. This creates an empty dashboard. You can add visualizations (also known as panels) by editing this dashboard. specify-params

Step 3: Edit previously created dashboard​

Click Edit Dashboard to edit the dashboard that you created in the previous step. edit-dashboard

tip

Don't forget to add the Tag values because this is the field based on which the dashboards are filtered by modules.

Step 6: Add a visualization dashboard​

Click Add and select Visualization.

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Step 5: Select a table​

Select a table whose fields you wish to visualize. HCE currently supports Chaos experiment runs, Chaos experiments, Chaos hub, and Chaos infrastructures. In this example, select Chaos experiments.

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Step 6: Select fields​

Select the 2 or more fields which you wish to visualize. In this example, select Experiment Type and Total experiment runs.

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Step 7: Click Run to view the graph​

When you click Run, chaos dashboard displays the graph of Total experiment runs (x-axis) versus Experiment Type (y-axis).

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Step 8: Click Save (Optional)​

If you wish to save your visualization, click Save. Otherwise, you can Cancel and add visualizations again. edit-dashboard

note

You can find the definitions for many of the fields here.

Next steps​

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