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Anonymous
Apr 09, 2018
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Log Analytics Dashboard Options

I am interested in understanding OMS dashboarding options. My understanding is as follows...   Within a single OMS workspace, I can only build and maintain one overview tile based dashboard (the o...
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    Stanislav_Zhelyazkov
    Apr 10, 2018

    Hi

    1. Yes Overview page in Log Analytics will show you all dashboards create by anyone. That Overview page is visible to anyone who has access to Log Analytics workspace resource. If you want to create let's say your own Overview page this is possible. You can just pin the tiles to Azure Dashboard. That Azure Dashboard will be available only to you if you do not share it.

     

    2. My Dashboard is deprecated feature.

     

    3. Yes

     

    4. Yes. 

     

    The best way is to create Log Analytics Views and pin the tiles of those views to Azure Dashboard. Than share the Azure Dashboard to specific team.

     

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ScottAllison
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Nov 16, 2018

This is also one of our biggest gripes about Azure Dashboards. We're testing out the Grafana Azure Monitor plugin which includes support for Application Insights, Azure Metrics and Log Analytics. With Grafana, I'm then able to create drill downs, filters, annotations and an overall level of interactivity that Azure Dashboards can't compete with. So far, this has been a great alternative.

NOTE: We've also tinkered with Power BI for creating Log Analytics dashboards, but the so-called "integration" is clunky and limited to 500k rows of data, something a large enterprise will run into almost immediately. If there were a "direct query" feature (like the Grafana plugin) for Power BI, then it would be a no-brainer to use Power BI. 

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