You can use the preconfigured Horizon dashboards to monitor the performance of your Horizon environment.

Table 1. Horizon Dashboard Summary

Horizon Dashboard

What It Shows

When To Use It

View Overview

Status of your end-to-end Horizon environment, including the top Horizon-related alerts.

  • Assess Horizon pod usage, client performance, and the overall user experience

  • View the top Horizon-related alerts

Horizon Help Desk Dashboard

Detailed information about all connected sessions running in your vRealize Operations for Horizon environment.

  • View detailed information about all connected sessions running in your vRealize Operations for Horizon environment

  • View all existing alerts of the system.

View Infrastructure

Information about the health, workload, and connectivity of infrastructure hosts, remote desktops, datastores, and RDS hosts in your Horizon environment.

  • Understand the relationships between objects in your Horizon infrastructure

  • Assess the underlying vSphere and Horizon infrastructure

Horizon User Sessions Dashboard

Metrics and performance information for all types of sessions, including VDI desktop sessions, RDS desktop sessions, and application sessions.

  • Identify and troubleshoot poorly performing remote sessions

View VDI Pools

Metrics and performance information for VDI pools.

  • Troubleshoot poorly performing desktop virtual machines and sessions

View RDS Pools

Metrics and performance information for RDS pools.

Note:

This dashboard is specific to Horizon 6.0.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7, and 7.0.1 environments.

  • Identify the RDS hosts that are using the most resources

  • Troubleshoot poorly performing RDS desktop and application sessions

View Applications

Status and performance information for application pools and their associated farms, RDS hosts, application sessions, applications, and Horizon clients.

Note:

This dashboard is specific to Horizon with Horizon 6.0.x, 6.1, 6.2, 7, and 7.0.1 environments.

  • Understand the relationships between objects in your application infrastructure

  • Troubleshoot remote applications

View Desktop Usage

Usage data for all of the desktop pools in your Horizon environment, including VDI desktop pools.

  • View active and disconnected sessions and identify session trends for selected desktop pools

  • View top alerts for selected desktop pools

  • Collect in-guest process data from desktop sessions

View Remote Session Details

Detailed information about all types of sessions running in your Horizon environment, including VDI desktop sessions, RDS desktop sessions, and application sessions.

  • Troubleshoot poorly performing sessions

  • Identify when session problems occurred

  • Collect in-guest process data from desktop sessions

View RDS and TS Host Details

Detailed information about the RDS hosts in your Horizon environment.

  • View desktop and application sessions currently running on selected RDS hosts

  • Identify when RDS host problems occurred

  • Collect and view in-guest process data from RDS hosts

View Adapter Self Health

Health information for your Horizon adapters and the broker agents connected to those adapters. This dashboard also contains license compliance information.

  • Troubleshoot Horizon adapter problems

  • Monitor license use

Horizon End User Experience Dashboard

Health information for your resources.

  • Troubleshoot problems related to vCenter resources adapter.