About Dashboards

Dashboards in PoshUI are designed for real-time monitoring, KPI visualization, and IT operations management. They provide a high-level overview of system health and metrics using a card-based grid layout.

Key Features

• Card-Based Layout: Organized grid of information cards that can be categorized and filtered.
• Rich Visualizations: Built-in support for metric KPIs, charts (Bar, Line, Area, Pie), and data grids.
• Live Refresh: Cards can execute PowerShell scripts on a schedule to update their values automatically.
• Category Filtering: Built-in search and filtering to group related cards together.
• Interactive Tools: ScriptCards allow users to run management tasks directly from the dashboard.
• Export Capabilities: Export data from DataGridCards to CSV or TXT files.
• PNG Icon Support (v1.3.0): Full-color PNG icons on steps, cards, banners, and carousel slides.
• Carousel Banners with PNG Icons (v1.3.0): Per-slide PNG icons in clickable carousel banners.
• Dual-Mode Custom Themes (v1.3.0): Independent light/dark color palettes with runtime toggle.
• Theme Toggle (v1.3.0): Sun/moon button in the title bar for instant theme switching.

When to Use Dashboards

Dashboards are ideal for:

• System Monitoring: Tracking CPU, memory, disk space, and service status across servers.
• Deployment Tracking: Monitoring the progress of automated deployments.
• Incident Management: Displaying active tickets or alerts from monitoring systems.
• Executive KPI Displays: High-level summaries of infrastructure health.

Workflow

A PoshUI Dashboard follows this pattern:

1. Initialize: Use New-PoshUIDashboard to start a new definition.
2. Define Pages: Add dashboard pages using Add-UIStep -Type Dashboard.
3. Add Components: Populate pages with Add-UIMetricCard, Add-UIChartCard, Add-UITableCard, Add-UIStatusCard, Add-UIScriptCard, Add-UICard or Add-UIBanner.
4. Show: Display the interface using Show-PoshUIDashboard.

Next: Creating Dashboards