Kion dashboards give users a centralized way to keep critical metrics, statuses, and notifications visible and easy to access. Dashboards can be personal or shared with others, enabling collaboration and alignment across teams. Managers and admins can create dashboards for their teams, share them broadly, and optionally pin them so key information remains consistently visible.
Users can create one or multiple dashboards, each tailored to a specific purpose or audience. By bringing together saved reports and other widgets into a single, curated view, Kion dashboards eliminate the need to jump between multiple pages or tools. Dashboards also serve as a quick launching point, allowing users and teams to click through directly to the underlying reports and resources they need, making it easy to monitor and act on critical information from one place.
Creating and Managing Dashboards
To create a new dashboard, click on the “Dashboards” section in the navigation. With the “Dashboards” section, navigate to the All Dashboards page. Next, click the “Add” button in the top-right corner. You’ll be automatically taken to the newly created dashboard.
Dashboard Details
Dashboards are automatically named using the date and time they’re created (in UTC). To rename one, simply click the name in the dashboard header, remove the default text, and type a new name. Clicking on the green checkmark button or clicking away from the field saves the name.
Below the name there is a description field. To add a description, click on the field and begin typing a description. Clicking on the green checkmark button or clicking away from the field saves the description.
Dashboards show metadata within the header section such as the user it was created by, the date it was created or updated, and who it is shared with.
Adding Widgets
Once you create a dashboard, you can choose to start from a template or add individual widgets one at a time. To add a widget, click “Add Widget” in the top right hand corner of the dashboard page or from the empty state below. Widgets can rearranged by clicking within the header of a widget and dragging and dropping them into place. To remove a widget, click the 3-dot menu in the top right corner and select “remove from dashboard.”
Dashboard Templates
To start with a template, click “Start with Template” from a newly created dashboard (before any widgets are selected). There are four templates available:
- FinOps Practitioner: A focused view of cloud spending and cost drivers. Quickly understand spend by project, account, service, and more.
- CloudOps Manager: An operational overview of cloud environments. Monitor activity, access, and spend while staying connected to system health and day-to-day operations.
- Compliance Auditor: Provides visibility into compliance status, policy enforcement, and recent activity.
- Cloud Engineer: Supports day-to-day cloud operations by surfacing access, activity, notifications, and system health in one place.
Sharing Dashboards
Users can share dashboards with other users in the system. You can share a dashboard in the midst of creating a dashboard from the Share Dashboard button in the header (only present when not yet shared with anyone), or you can select Manage Dashboard from the 3-dot menu in the header and share from there as well. When shared, recipients of the dashboard can only see widgets and data allowed by their permissions (e.g. spend data is limited to only the resources a user has access to).
Setting a Default Dashboard
Users can set one dashboard as their default, which will be shown when they log in. If no default dashboard is set, they’ll see the All Dashboards list page instead.
To set a default dashboard, select Set Dashboard as Default from the three-dot menu in the dashboard header or from the dashboard list. To remove it, select Remove Dashboard as Default from the same menu.
When a default dashboard is set, it displays in the first position in the dashboard section of the navigation, above any pinned dashboards.
Pinning Dashboards
Pinning and Ordering Dashboards
To pin a dashboard, click the pin icon in the top right of the dashboard header or select Pin to Navigation from the 3-dot menu. Once pinned, a dashboard displays within the dashboards section in the left navigation for quick access. Once 2 or more dashboards are pinned, users can click and drag the dashboards within the navigation to reorder. Newly pinned dashboards are positioned at the top of the list.
Pinning Dashboards for Others
Managers and admins with the appropriate permissions can optionally pin dashboards for others. Pinning dashboards allows important information to remain highly visible and easily accessible.
In the midst of sharing a dashboard, users with the Pin Dashboards for Other Users permission can optionally select Pin Dashboard in the Pin to User’s Navigation section. This pins the dashboard for all selected users or groups, adding it to their pinned dashboards list.
Users can have up to 10 pinned dashboards. If pinning exceeds this limit, the lowest-priority pinned dashboard is automatically removed.
v3.14 and below
For those on v3.14 and below, the following functionality isn’t available:
- Creating multiple dashboards
- Sharing dashboards with others
- Pinning dashboards