Migrate New Dashboards
Overview
The new Migrate to New Dashboards functionality allows you to switch to New Dashboards from the Classic Dashboards with the help of a single click**. Migrate to New Dashboards lets you transform any of your classic dashboards into a new dashboard format, with minimal intervention from post-migration activity. It lets you analyze metrics and log data on the same dashboard, in a streamlined user experience.It lets you analyze metrics and log data on the same dashboard, in a streamlined user experience. This is exactly what you need to monitor and manage a Kubernetes environment effectively.
This gives you control over the visual display of metric and logs data. Dashboard (New) streamlines dashboard configuration and on-the-fly analytic visualizations with its new templating features.
We do not guarantee 100% conversion from classic to new dashboard although we do provide an exhaustive list of incompatibilities that need to be taken care of. Customers can still keep their old dashboard after migration.
Advantages
- New dashboards are constantly developed for new feature additions.
- New dashboard provides the unique ability to display metrics metadata and logs data on the same dashboard in an integrated seamless view.
- New dashboard streamlines dashboard configuration and on-the-fly analytic visualizations with its new templating features.
Changes after migration
This table shows the complete list of features that are changed after the implementation of the Migrate to New Dashboards feature.
Features | Supported | Not Supported |
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Theme | No effect, migrated as it is | NA |
Dashboard Layout |
| NA |
Chart colors |
| NA |
Table Panels |
| Text Truncation |
Bar/Column panel |
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Line/Area panel |
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Pie/Donut panel |
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SVP panel |
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Map panel | Migrated as is | NA |
Text/Title panel | Migrated as is | NA |
Box plot / Sankey |
| ❌ |
Panel time ranges | Migrated as is | NA |
Dashboard time range | Migrated as is | NA |
Metrics query data interpolation | NA | ❌ |
Metrics series |
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Metrics panel (Line) |
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Metrics panel (Area) |
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Metrics panel (Single Value) |
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Metrics panel (Single Value (Gauge) |
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Metrics panel (Single Value (Sparkline) |
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Migration Steps
This section explains to you the step-by-step process to migrate your dashboards.
- Navigate to any of your classic dashboards or create a new one. Click Migrate to new dashboards link.
- A dialog box appears. Click Migrate to New Dashboard as shown below.
- Click Open Dashboard to view the migrated dashboard, given the migration is successful.
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The following dialog can have 2 other states:- Warning State. Showing any warnings during migrations: warnings don’t fail the migration process, however, it might be something that you have to fix on your own or is a feature that is not yet supported on the new dashboard.
- Error State. The process can sometimes run into an error state, this fails the migration and the new dashboard is not created.
- Warning State. Showing any warnings during migrations: warnings don’t fail the migration process, however, it might be something that you have to fix on your own or is a feature that is not yet supported on the new dashboard.
Limitations
Incompatibility | Description |
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Panels |
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Public dashboards |
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