One of the most important deliverables of a monitoring solution is how you visualize the data and present it back to your customers and end users. With OpsMgr, there's a wide variety of options to choose from that enable you to create dashboards containing meaningful information. You can take advantage of pre-built dashboard layouts that can be populated with different visualization widgets to help display your monitoring data – or you can get inspiration from some of the free dashboard solutions that have been made available by the general OpsMgr community.
We will start this chapter with an introduction to all the built-in dashboard layouts and templates that OpsMgr has to offer before walking you through some of the most popular widgets that you can use to light up your displays and impress the boss!
Towards the end of the chapter we'll point you in the direction of some recommended community dashboard resources and we'll also give you some...