Configuring Widgets

Configure Console Dashboards widgets so that they give you insight into your resource usage, billing, and system health. Each dashboard can contain multiple widgets.

Note

A single dashboard can contain a maximum of 20 widgets. If you need more than 20 widgets, create additional dashboards.

Types of Console Dashboards Widgets

Console Dashboards support the following types of widget (Applications services support only Resource Explorer, Monitoring, and Markdown).

The following sections describe the dashboard widgets and explain how to configure them. For general steps explaining how to add widgets to dashboards, see Managing Widgets.

Infrastructure Billing

Administrators and users with appropriate permissions can view the infrastructure billing widget. The infrastructure billing widget lets you quickly view your current charges or usage and the days elapsed in your billing cycle. Your view depends on your account type.

  • Pay As You Go customers see the current charges and the number of days elapsed in the current billing cycle.
  • Universal credit customers see the total credits used and number of days elapsed in the credit period.
  • Trial customers see the total credits used and number of days elapsed in the trial period.

To get a more detailed view of your spending, select the Analyze costs link to go to the Cost Analysis tool where you can generate charts and reports of aggregated cost data for your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure consumption. If your account is a Free Tier or promotional trial account, you see an option to Upgrade your account. If you have a paid account, you see the option to Manage payment method to view or change your payment method.

Cost Management

Administrators and users with appropriate permissions can view the cost management widget. The cost management widget helps you track and optimize your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure spending by generating charts and reports of aggregated cost data.

The Cost Analysis Overview includes more information about the Cost Analysis tool and detailed descriptions of the Cost Analysis query fields used by this widget.

Logging Chart

Use the logging chart widget to create visualizations with the data stored in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging service.

To use the logging chart widget, you first need to enable logs for resources. After you enable a log, log entries begin to appear on the detail page for the log, and you can use this data to build charts with the logging chart widget. For instructions, see Enabling Logging for a Resource.

The Logging service contains three kinds of logs:

  • Audit logs: Logs related to events emitted by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit service. These logs are available from the Logging Audit page, or are searchable on the Search page alongside the rest of your logs.
  • Service logs: Emitted by OCI native services, such as API Gateway, Events, Functions, Load Balancer, Object Storage, and VCN Flow Logs. Each of these supported services has pre-defined logging categories that you can enable or disable on your respective resources.
  • Custom logs: Logs that contain diagnostic information from custom applications, other cloud providers, or an on-premise environment. Custom logs can be ingested through the API, or by configuring the Unified Monitoring Agent. You can configure an OCI Compute instance/resource to directly upload Custom Logs through the Unified Monitoring Agent. Custom logs are supported in both a virtual machine and bare metal scenario.

Logging Data Table

Use the logging data table widget to add a table that displays the data stored in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging service.

To use the logging data table widget, you first need to enable logs for resources. After you enable a log, log entries begin to appear on the detail page for the log. For instructions, see Enabling Logging for a Resource.

The Logging service contains three kinds of logs:

  • Audit logs: Logs related to events emitted by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit service. These logs are available from the Logging Audit page, or are searchable on the Search page alongside the rest of your logs.
  • Service logs: Emitted by OCI native services, such as API Gateway, Events, Functions, Load Balancer, Object Storage, and VCN Flow Logs. Each of these supported services has pre-defined logging categories that you can enable or disable on your respective resources.
  • Custom logs: Logs that contain diagnostic information from custom applications, other cloud providers, or an on-premise environment. Custom logs can be ingested through the API, or by configuring the Unified Monitoring Agent. You can configure an OCI Compute instance/resource to directly upload Custom Logs through the Unified Monitoring Agent. Custom logs are supported in both a virtual machine and bare metal scenario.

Markdown

Use the markdown widget to include and format text-based content in your dashboard.

Monitoring

Use the monitoring widget to view metric data stored in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service.

To configure the monitor chart widget, you first need to configure metric queries. See Building Metric Queries for more information.

Resource Explorer

Use the resource explorer to get an overview of the number and types of resources that exist in a selected compartment and region.

Resource Query

Use resource queries to get detailed resource information. You can filter by region, compartment, resource type, or write an advanced query using Search Language Syntax.