The IDERA Dashboard is a common technology framework designed to support the entire IDERA product suite. The IDERA Dashboard allows users to get an overview of the status of their SQL Servers and hosted databases all in a consolidated view, while providing users the means to drill into individual product dashboards for details. The IDERA Dashboard supports multiple copies of SQL diagnostic manager installations.

The IDERA Dashboard is comprised of the following tabs:

In the IDERA Dashboard users can glance at their registered products overall status through the Overview tab (Click image to view full size).  This tab contains product widgets of all the products registered with the IDERA Dashboard.  By default the Overview tab contains the following widgets:

  • Overall status
  • Instance status
  • Instance list
  • Active alerts list

In the Overview tab, you can perform the following actions:

  • Expand or collapse a widget .
  • View a widget in full size .
  • Remove a widget
  • Filter widget information by SQL Diagnostic Manager Repository (Click image to view full size).

Customize the Main Navigation tab order

Users can customize the main navigation tab order of the IDERA Dashboard in the Configure Navigation order widget of the Administration view.

Customize the Overview tab

Users can customize the Overview tab by adding, removing, and arranging widgets in the Configure Dashboard Views widget of the Administration view.

In the IDERA Dashboard users can select specific metrics to display in the Details view tab (Click image to view full size).  This tab contains product widgets of all the products registered with the IDERA Dashboard. By default the Details view tab contains the following widgets:

  • Products by Alerts (All Products).
  • Alerts by Category (All Products).
  • Top Alerts by Metric (All Products).
  • Top Instances by Alert Count.
  • Top Databases by Alert Counts.
  • Top Instances by CPU Usage.
  • Alert Counts by Category.

In the Details tab, you can perform the following actions:

  • Expand or collapse a widget .
  • View a widget in full size .
  • Remove a widget
  • Filter widget information by SQL Diagnostic Manager Repository.

Customize the Details view tab

  Users can customize the Details view tab by adding, removing, and arranging widgets in the Configure Dashboard Views widget of the Administration view.

In the IDERA Dashboard users can access information on all registered products current alerts and filter them based on:

  • Product
  • Category
  • Severity
  • Metric


In the IDERA Dashboard all products show a common Administration tab, granted the logged-in user has administrator privileges. Selecting this tab, displays the Administration view which hosts a range of  widgets for performing administration-related actions.  Click image to view full size.


The Administration view of the IDERA Dashboard provides a central set of services related to specific actions such as.

For more information on each service and what configuration settings are available, visit each respective section.





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