Dashboard
The Dashboard is your at-a-glance home page for your Azure environment. Twelve modular widgets cover security posture, infrastructure changes, cost trends, policy drift, and savings opportunities. Use the default layout, or build your own custom dashboards picking only the widgets you care about.
What You'll Learn
This documentation covers the dashboard end to end:
- What the default layout shows and how page-level controls work
- How to create, edit, reorder, and delete personal custom dashboards
- What every widget's metric cards mean and where each click navigates
- Per-widget defaults you can tune (time windows, thresholds, principal filters)
- Permission requirements and what to expect on a fresh install
Key Capabilities
Twelve Modular Widgets
Security, alerts, infrastructure, policy, cost, anomalies, advisor, orphaned resources, commitments, and access optimization, all on a single page that you do not have to compose.
Click-Through to Detail
Most metric cards, table rows, and chart slices are clickable. Each click lands on the relevant detail page with filters or selections already applied.
Personal Custom Dashboards
Save up to 25 personal layouts per account. Pick widgets, drag to reorder, and tune per-widget defaults like time windows, anomaly thresholds, or principal-type filters.
Permission-Driven Visibility
Widgets you do not have permission for are hidden, not greyed out. A FinOps user sees cost widgets; a security analyst sees Defender and alerts. No empty placeholders cluttering the page.
Feature Integration
The Dashboard is a hub. Every widget click leads to the corresponding feature page with filters pre-applied. Related docs:
- Access Optimization for the principal-level optimization signals
- Automated Scanning because most widgets are empty until the first scan completes
- Change Tracking for the destination behind every Recent Changes row
- Cost Anomaly Detection for the deeper anomaly investigation flow
- Orphaned Resources for cleanup workflows
- Commitment Coverage for reservation and savings-plan recommendations
Documentation Sections
Start with the Dashboard Overview if this is your first visit. Jump straight to a widget category if you are looking up what a specific number means or where a click goes.
Dashboard Overview
What the default layout shows, page-level controls, and behavior every widget shares.
Read: Dashboard Overview →Custom Dashboards
Create personal layouts, reorder widgets, and tune per-widget defaults like time windows and anomaly thresholds.
Read: Custom Dashboards →Security Widgets
Defender Assessments, Security Alerts, and Access Optimization. Severity counts, change tables, and where each click lands.
Read: Security Widgets →Infrastructure & Policy Widgets
Infrastructure Overview, Policy Assignments, and Policy Compliance. Entity counts, compliance states, and assignment changes.
Read: Infrastructure & Policy Widgets →Cost Widgets
Cost Intelligence period-over-period spend, the top-resources pie, and the lightweight Cost Anomalies view.
Read: Cost Widgets →Recommendations Widgets
Advisor Recommendations, Orphaned Resources, Commitment Utilization, and Commitment Recommendations.
Read: Recommendations Widgets →Want to learn more about what Executive Dashboard can do?
Check out the feature page for benefits, use cases, and highlights.
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