Custom views

Use the IBM® Cloud Application Business Insights Universal View to enhance the value that the predefined Application Performance Dashboard pages already provide by customizing your own pages.

The Universal View can be used to display resource monitoring data. It cannot be used to display synthetic transaction data, transaction tracking data, response time agent data, and deep-dive diagnostic data. By using the Universal View, you can quickly build monitoring pages for an application and save them for viewing. While viewing a saved custom dashboard page, you can view the dashboard in auto refresh mode or export the dashboard to Raw data file or edit the dashboard, or delete the dashboard.

The four default roles in Cloud APM: Role Administrator, Monitoring Administrator, System Administrator, and Monitoring User have different permissions to view and modify dashboard pages. For more information, see Table 1. Roles and permissions .

The options that are available in the Custom Views tab depend on whether the page is being edited or viewed.

Note:
  • If you are using a Chrome incognito browser, you might see the message This content is blocked when you select the Custom Views tab of the Cloud APM console. To display custom views, you need to change your Chrome browser settings to allow cookies (including third-party cookies) for your Cloud APM console website. To change your Chrome browser cookie settings, see the following example steps.
    Note: The steps might change depending on which Chrome browser version is installed.
    1. Select the option to change your Chrome browser settings.
    2. Scroll down to the Privacy and security section.
    3. Select Cookies and other site data. Or you can directly go to chrome://settings/cookies.
    4. Scroll down to Sites that can always use cookies and select Add.
    5. Enter https://your-subscription-URL where your-subscription-URL is the address for your Cloud APM console, for example, 123456789012345678901234567890.customers.na.apm.ibmserviceengage.com.
    6. Select Including third-party cookies on this site.
    7. Select Add.
  • If you are using a public or private Firefox browser window, you might see a blank page when you select the Custom Views tab of the Cloud APM console. To display custom views, you need to turn off enhanced tracking protection for the Cloud APM console website in your browser. The steps to turn off enhanced tracking protection depend on the version of your Firefox browser.
    • If there is a shield icon in front of the website address field, click it and look for an option to turn off enhanced tracking protection for theCloud APM console website.
    • If your version of Firefox does not support turning off enhanced tracking protection for a specific website, configure the privacy settings for your browser. For the enhanced tracking protection privacy settings, configure custom settings to turn off cookie blocking or only block cookies from unvisited websites. Also turn off tracking protection for your browser window type (public or private browser window). You need to reload your browser tabs after changing the privacy settings. If the custom views tab is still blank after changing your browser settings, clear your browser cache and cookies, close your browser window, and log into the Cloud APM console again.
  • If you are using Internet Explorer browser window, you might see a blank page when you select the Custom Views tab of the Cloud APM console. To display custom views, you need to configure your browser to allow cookies for the Cloud APM console website and refresh your browser window before selecting the Custom Views tab again. The steps to configure browser privacy cookie behavior depends on the version of Internet Explorer that you are using.