Creating dashboards with Azure Data Explorer
In this section, we will learn how to navigate the dashboard editor, how to build basic dashboards with various charts and tiles, how to share dashboards, and how to develop dashboards with parameters that allow your audience to interact with and change parameters. As you will see later in this chapter, parameters allow us to create predefined filters that the audience can use to manipulate their view of the dashboard.
Navigating the dashboard window
At the time of writing, the Data Explorer Web UI's navigation panel contains three options called Data, Query, and Dashboards (Preview), as shown in the following screenshot:
The first time you click on Dashboards (Preview) in ADX (https://dataexplorer.azure.com), you will see two buttons: Create new dashboard and Create sample dashboard. The Create sample dashboard button creates a dashboard...