Custom Dashboards for VSI App

Custom dashboards enable the combination of widgets and display options to highlight the insights that are most meaningful to your users and business. Customized widgets display metrics and dimensions in table, summary metric, distribution, time series, and bar.

By selecting App as the data source when creating a custom dashboard, you can have the custom dashboard used for App, such as tracking the app crashes on different hardware to analyze the app performance.

For more details regarding custom dashboards creation steps and features, check Custom Dashboards.

Use Cases

A Map Chart Creation

Custom dashboards allow you to easily display metrics and dimensions in a map chart format within widgets. The map chart enables an intuitive way to check metrics from geographical perspectives, such as country, state, and city.

Creating a Widget with a Map Chart

1. On the Custom Dashboard main page, click Add New Dashboard in the top right corner, select APP from the Data Source list, and click Create.

2. From the date picker, select the time range, and click Apply. The default time range is Last 6 hours. In this use case, use Last 7 days.

3. To go to the Add New Widget page, click New Widget.

4. Fill out the Widget Name field, select the suitable items, and click OK. The map chart displays in the widget.

   • Widget Name: App Crash

   • Visual Map: Map

   • Metric: App Crashes

   • Geo Dimension: Cities

5. If you want the map to show the top 3 cities, click the Map Configuration icon, fill out 3, and click OK.

Hovering over a city, such as Amsterdam, reveals the city name and metric values.

Multiple Data Sources

Custom dashboards allow you to use multiple data sources when creating a single custom dashboard to enhance analysis across your video streams, ads, and application performance.

Creating a Dashboard with Multiple Data Sources

1. On the Custom Dashboard main page, click Add New Dashboard in the top right corner. In the pop-up window, click Multiple Data Sources and select VSI and APP from the Data Source list, and click Create.

2. From the date picker, select the time range, and click Apply. The default time range is Last 6 hours. In this use case, use Last 7 days.

3. To go to the Add New Widget page, click New Widget.

4. Fill out the fields, select the suitable items, and click OK. The table to track video performance displays in the widget.

   • Data Source: VSI

   • Widget Name: Video Start Failures

   • Visual Map: Table

   • Metrics: VSF

   • Dimension: Device Model

5. Fill out the fields, select the suitable items, and click OK. The table to track app performance displays in the widget.

   • Data Source: App

   • Widget Name: App Crashes

   • Visual Map: Table

   • Metrics: App Crashes

   • Dimension: Device Model

Overall Analysis

Custom dashboards allow you to easily analyze app and web performances and related factories, such as the number of active devices, app crashes, web errors, and active devices over the time, by creating different formats of widgets with necessary metrics.

Creating Widgets for Overall Analysis

1. On the Custom Dashboard main page, click Create New Dashboard in the top right corner, fill out the dashboard name, choose Single Data Source, and select APP from the Data Source list, and click Create.

2. From the date picker, select the time range, and click Apply. The default time range is Last 6 hours. In this use case, select October 16 and October 19.

3. To add new widgets, click New Widget.

4. Fill out the Widget Name field, select the suitable items, and click OK. Create widgets one by one based on the table.

1. Check data from the created widgets.

For more information see Custom Dashboards.