The homepage enables you to create, view, and manage dashboards in vRealize Network Insight.

The vRealize Network Insight home page displaying the Get Started dashboard.

The homepage contains several elements:

Elements Description
Search bar (1) Enables you to search across your entire data center network and its corresponding entities. Based on your requirement, you can perform search as per the following time line options:
  • Presets: Using this option, you can narrow down your search results for presets such as last week, last 3 days, and last 24 hours.
  • At: Using this option, you can narrow down your search results for a particular date and time.
  • Custom: Using this option, you can search for data between a particular time interval.
Get Started (2) Provides a high-level overview of your entire data center. The Get Started dashboard is available by default on the vRealize Network Insight homepage.
More (3) If you have more than one dashboard, the More drop-down menu is displayed. This drop-down menu enables you to manage dashboards and arrange the order in which the dashboards are displayed on the homepage.
Note: You can display a minimum of one dashboard and a maximum of five dashboards on the homepage.
Create New Dashboard (4) Enables you to create a new dashboard and access it from the homepage.
Auto Refresh (5) Enables you to change the auto refresh time frame at a global level.
Last 24 hours (6) Displays the dashboard data for the last 24 hours from the current time. Based on your requirement, you can view the dashboard data as per the following time line options:
  • Presets: View the dashboard data for the last week, last 3 days, and last 24 hours.
  • At: View the dashboard data at a particular date and time.
  • Custom: View the dashboard data between a particular time interval.
Duplicate (7) Enables you to duplicate the selected dashboard.
Note: You cannot duplicate dashboards such as Kubernetes, and SD-WAN.
More options (8) Enables you to edit, share, delete, and download the selected dashboard as PDF.
Note: The options differ based on the dashboard you are accessing. For example, you cannot share or delete Get Started, Kubernetes, and SD-WAN dashboards.
Explore Guides (9) Shows guided workflows to perform some of the most important tasks in vRealize Network Insight.
Navigation pane (10) Enables you to access key product features such as Plan & Assess, Intent, and Entities without having to type a search query.

The Get Started Dashboard

The Get Started dashboard is a system-defined dashboard that provides a high-level overview of what is happening in your entire data center. It also provides quick access to the important components of your data center.

The dashboard contains several widgets such as:

Widgets Description
Performance Indicates the health of platform VMs, collector VMs, and the platform capacity.
Infrastructure Displays the platform capacity.
Alerts Displays the alerts sorted by the severity.
Insights Highlights critical or behavioral changes in the network at the current time. This section also highlights entities such as applications, firewall rules, and VMs that need immediate attention.
Quick Links Shows useful quick links.
Environments Shows a heat map view indicating the health of entities associated with each environment type.
Anomalies Shows error metrics for applications, VMs, and VMware NSX-T Edge Transport nodes.
Note: You cannot share, edit, or delete the Get Started dashboard. However, you can duplicate the dashboard and save the dashboard as a PDF file.