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Thank you, mate! It means a lot that you’ve taken the time to comment and help other engineers discover this. I’ve had so much encouragement from this community, so I’m simply paying it forward. Really appreciate the support! 😄

This is where my little SolarWinds dashboard adventure started What began as sharing a few dashboard experiments turned into a whole series, some pretty wild creations and lots of wonderful conversations with the THWACK community. So I wanted to come back to where it started and share a little gift. I've recently published…

This is where I really start to see the potential of the Neon Tide SWQL blank canvas. The same approach could be used to build context dashboards like this one, and I think monthly reporting and service reviews could really benefit from it. Rather than just presenting peak utilisation, we can bring together duration,…

For anyone interested in experimenting with a dashboard like this, I've recently shared a SWQL blank canvas that could be used to build something similar The same approach can be used to create the visual elements, including animated connections, using the method for SWQL, HTML, CSS and SVG. The underlying data and…

A little update to this one I absolutely love this design, and it's still one of my favourite dashboards I've built! I've recently shared a SWQL blank canvas with the community, and the same approach could be used to build the visual foundations of this dashboard using SWQL, HTML, CSS and SVG. The interface data and…

Thank you sir!

A little update to close the loop on this series 😊 If you've followed Parts 1 through 6 and wondered how you could start building dashboards like these yourself, I've recently shared a SWQL blank canvas with the community. The same approach can be used as a starting point for the visuals throughout this series. You'll…

Same code, different shape! 😉 4D Hypercube: A tesseract consists of 16 vertices and 32 edges across four spatial dimensions. Here, the geometry is projected into 2D to create the nested-cube effect. The Infinite Gate: Repeating concentric octagons are scaled towards a central vanishing point, creating the illusion of an…

Thanks for testing this! Great to hear it’s working on 2025.4.3 and in the classic Custom Table too. That did make me chuckle I had Modern Dashboards in mind when I put this version together, and you’ve already found another home for it. Well played, my kind of engineer! 😄 for future you, The 3D experiments are great fun…

Thanks Naveen, really appreciate it! 😁 Got a little carried away with this one, but it was a lot of fun to build 😊

Thanks Vidula! 😁 Bob’s adventures are getting a little out of hand 😂 Really glad you enjoyed it, Had a lot of fun adding all the little details to this one 👻

Haha I do, honest! Thanks Peter 👻 After showing a few engineers the Halloween event, one of them joked, “What's next, RuneScape? Can you build a whole game world we can walk around in?” Well, I might have taken that a bit too far, so now I'm calling it an open-world “meet the team” dashboard, Happy Halloween mate 🎃

Haha I do, honest! Thanks Peter 👻 After showing a few engineers the Halloween event, one of them joked, “What's next, RuneScape? Can you build a whole game world we can walk around in?” Well, I might have taken that a bit too far, so now I'm calling it an open-world “meet the team” dashboard, Happy Halloween mate 🎃

Cheers Vinay, 😊 Happy Halloween to you too 🎃 👻

Thank you mate 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you mate 😁

Awesome cant wait 🧡

Thank you both! 😄 I really like where this replay idea is going, especially being able to look back and see how things unfolded over time

Thank you everyone for taking the time to play along and for all your comments! And thank you, THWACK, for being a place where I can share my slightly strange ideas. You’ve only encouraged me now 🥚 Bob will be back with something a little spookier for Halloween! 🎃👻

Haha, “Bob’s gone from polls to patrols” really gave me a chuckle 😂 That’s made my day, thanks for that 😄

Thanks mate, your support has always been a key driver in posting these ideas

Spending six hours troubleshooting an unplugged server is 100% my world sometimes 😂 Then another hour making “plugged it back in” sound technical Happy IT Pro Day, everyone!

You nailed it, John 😊 The aim is to make it visually engaging and operationally useful, something engineers have a reason to return to in their day-to-day work. Being able to filter the estate, select a node and inspect its metrics gives it that practical value. Keeping node identity and reported Orion status intact while…

Haha, I’ll take the Sheldon Cooper comparison 😂 Thank you @jaspiedad It grew out of the custom dashboard work I’ve been experimenting with inside SolarWinds and sharing with the community. It really started with “could I create a sphere of nodes and have them move around it?” From there, one idea led to another, and…

Thank you so much for this, and to everyone who joined the session. I had a lot of fun putting it together and may have gone slightly off-script once or twice 😅 I love the “case file of qualified evidence” description. That really captures what I was trying to show: moving beyond another alert and giving engineers enough…

Thanks mate, they have been really fun to build, thank you for spreading them 🤩

Done mate, good luck 🤞

Now we’re cooking 🍳 The bigger point is exactly it. The data was already there, but reshaping it live changes the questions you can ask and the patterns you can see. I wonder whether the next step is to layer in operational context: is this expected for that application, is it recurring, and is the change material enough…

Thank you so much, everyone! I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to join, all the engagement during the session and the lovely comments afterwards. I had a brilliant time sharing the dashboards and ideas with you all 😊🥚