Building Modern Dashboard

I'm interested in this as well. The Orion Demo Site has this view and while I don't need all of this, it is helpful on what I'd like to do as well.  The problem is not understanding if this is a modern dashboard with widgets or classic dashboard. Additionally, customizing them

The example on the demo site is a modern dashboard in its entirety. At the moment there are no OOTB widgets and so you will need to define the widgets as needed. What kind of data are you looking to display? 

Yes, this is certainly possible. Within the presentation configuration section of each widget, you will see an item for Widget link URL(optional). This can be a link to an existing dashboard URL or any other URL.

Looking to display # of active remote connections across all VPN endpoints.

Total VPNs online, Webservers Online, Applications online

Node Status for three separate regions for now and Top 5-10 for each region.

I didn't see one for the smaller boxes that I pulled down only the larger ones. Is it based on the size of the widget?

What VPN solution are you using? NPM supports VPN polling of ASA and PA Global Protect. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-monitor-VPN?language=en_US If using another vendor we will need to look at how to capture that data using other methods such as the universal device poller.

Adding a URL to the widget configuration adds the explore this data icon to the upper right-hand side and makes the widget title navigable, even when using the smallest widget size possible. Is this not the behaviour you are seeing?