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Part 1. SolarWinds World Tour Dashboard - Pushing Dashboards Beyond the Default

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I love this design so much that I wanted to share it here.

I’ve been experimenting with how far i can push SolarWinds dashboards beyond traditional monitoring views:

A SolarWinds-inspired World Tour Dashboard:

For anyone curious, this is built directly inside SolarWinds HCO using SQL-driven HTML/CSS over Orion data.

The dashboard/s uses real monitoring evidence such as nodes, interfaces, alert history, availability, hardware health, and capacity, then presents it as a more visual posture view.

More dashboard themes below

This post originally started as a single dashboard share, but I added several more themes and experiments in the comments below.

Scroll down to see the additional designs, including alternative themes, animated dashboard concepts, a services-state view, and a Node Down dashboard.

Some of these are deliberately more experimental than production-focused, but they show how far the SolarWinds presentation layer can be pushed when the underlying evidence remains the source of truth.

Update — Part 2 is now live

The feedback on these dashboards encouraged me to continue the idea as a series.

For Part 2, I took the same approach in a more operational direction with a dashboard called Observability Lens.

Instead of focusing on the state of individual devices or services posture, it asks a broader question:

How much confidence should we have in the monitoring evidence itself?

It uses live Orion data to interpret evidence quality, polling completion, alert behaviour, coverage, and pressure into a single monitoring-trust posture.

You can see Part 2 here:

Observability Lens: A Glass View into the Evidence Layer

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That’s seriously impressive 👏

i_like_eggs

World tour animations

i_like_eggs

Bob.
He occasionally wanders around my SolarWinds environment while I experiment with ideas that sit slightly outside traditional monitoring dashboards.

i_like_eggs

Experimenting with another way to visualise service state.
Not every concept needs to become a production dashboard. Some are useful simply because they test new presentation patterns and help identify what improves signal recognition 👍

martian_monster

Wow you are definitely taking dashboards to the next level.

i_like_eggs

One of my favourite dashboard experiments so far: a Node Down Signal Map.

Instead of presenting unavailable nodes as another flat table, this view turns each down node into a visible signal around the overall node-down state.

It is still a simple view of nodes that are currently down, but the presentation makes the scale of the issue immediately clear and keeps each node available for drill-down.

vinay.by

@i_like_eggs

That is some cool stuff in there :) , Well done!

i_like_eggs

Thanks mate :)

vinay.by

:) thumbs up :)

naveensingh43

Awesome — nicely done!

naveensingh43

Awesome — nicely done!

i_like_eggs

Part 2 is now live if you are interested - thanks again for the feedback on the dashboards. I took this one in a more operational direction.

Part 2. Observability Lens: A Glass View into the Evidence Layer - THWACK

@vinay.by @naveensingh43 @martian_monster

fop

Ignore my question on your previous post :)

That looks amazing 😍 Seriously cool.

kay.balabis

These are FANTASTIC! I had to stop myself from liking every theme 😂 Thank you so much for spending time in creating these visuals.

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