Viewing and managing custom charts and tables

The Application Performance Dashboard provides predefined dashboards of your managed system key performance indicators. While you are viewing the dashboard for a component instance, use the Attribute Details tab to view saved chart or table pages and to create and manage other pages.

For example, you observe a critical indicator in the summary dashboard and drill down to the instance where the condition is occurring. From here, you add a chart that plots the busy CPU rate to see what is happening over time. You can view details about any available attributes of the selected component instance and save the custom chart or table with the agent for display whenever you open a managed system instance.

A subset of the agent's data sets and attributes is available for use in custom charts and tables. These attributes are the most useful for displaying in dashboards. The full set of attributes is available for use in custom thresholds (see Threshold Manager).

To improve performance and reduce redundancy, agents restrict the number of rows that show for certain data sets in the Attribute Details. The data set descriptions in the agent help and reference PDF indicate whether the default data sample limits the number of rows that are sent to the Cloud APM server.

For visually impaired users, the ability to create historical tables provides an alternative to line charts, which assistive technologies such as screen-reader software cannot interpret. For this reason, the Attribute Details tab is available for Response Time Monitoring agent and Synthetic Playback agent transaction instances for creating historical tables. For more information, see Example of creating a custom table with keyboard controls.