How to use Dashboard

When there's more than a few Processes in your Frends Tenant and you would like to make sure everything is running as expected, you can use Dashboard to centrally monitor the Processes.

Step by Step Tutorial Available

If you prefer more visual or interactive guidance on how to use the Dashboard in Frends, you can find a step-by-step walkthrough from your own environment's home page, under Onboarding by selecting "Tutorial 2b, Step 1: Dashboard" tutorial.

What is Dashboard?

Dashboard is a comprehensive tool within the Frends Control Panel designed to provide users with a clear and concise overview of their system activities. It includes key metrics such as performance statistics and integration execution logs. The Dashboard offers customizable widgets that allow users to tailor the view according to their specific monitoring needs. Users can adjust settings to highlight critical alerts, track error occurrences, and monitor execution counts, thus enabling proactive management and swift response to any issues that may arise.

Accessing Dashboard

To find the Dashboard, click on your profile name in upper right corner, and select Dashboard from the opening menu.

You can also get a quick access by creating a bookmark pointing at yourtentant.frendsapp.com/Dashboard.

Monitor Process execution counts

Sometimes the count of executions is the most important detail to monitor. This can be required in order to manage and allocate resources to Frends Agents, set up more Agents to High Availability configuration, or simply to see how your business is doing.

Dashboard provides a couple widgets to let you see and monitor execution counts in your Frends Tenant. Successful processes shows you a daily execution count for successful executions, while Failed processes widget can be used to monitor specifically errors. They can also be adjusted to display the count from multiple days if required. They will also show the change from last time period when compared to currently ongoing counter.

More versatile and detailed widget for monitoring execution counts is the Process execution graph, which will show you a graph of execution counts for each point in time, for the chosen time period. The smaller the time period chosen, more detailed the graph will become. For this graph you can also choose to display either successful or failed executions.

Monitor errors on a per Process basis

In case you want to monitor specifically errors coming from Processes, the Errors widget will let you make a list of Processes with failed executions, sorted by latest failed execution timestamp. This is useful if you want to drill down further into where the errors in your Tenant are coming from.

While a single list of Processes and errors in them is efficient, usually it's the specific Environment that's the important part of the monitoring. Monitoring the Test Environment is not very useful, when the issues are happening in production. Widgets allow selecting the Environment they are pulling the data from, making sure that what you're monitoring is from where you expect it to come from, and not the whole Tenant with all of the development work on the way.

Focusing on specific Processes

In order to monitor only a subset of your Processes, Environment level separation probably is not enough. For this use case, tags can be used to specify which set of Processes to monitor in the chosen Environment.

In Dashboard context, tags provide a way to select a group of Processes to monitor within a widget, optionally with Environment selection as well. If your solution or target system specific Processes need to be monitored as a whole and separate from other systems' integrations, using tags is the way to go.

Adjusting the Dashboard view

Using the widgets allows you to specify accurately, what data is shown and in what format. While each widget can show only a specific piece of data, having multiple allows you to gather and combine monitoring data with different filters to get a complete overview to your Frends Tenant in one quick glance.

The Dashboard allows you to arrange the widgets however you see fit, by providing the option to drag and drop the widgets around to create different views to suit your style.

To remember which widget shows what data, renaming the chosen widgets is of course possible. Just click on the widget's title and you have entered the edit mode for the title.