Users to have the ability to create and define NPM dashboards

You need to put it as a feature request then people can vote.

but you can create new pages and duplicate stuff across on an individual basis or team basis. Just don’t use the defaults.

then give them rights on those pages

When you say pages do you mean views? If so how do you give a user the ability to modify a single view?

bhilgenkamp_botw​ I do not believe you can currently give permissions to modify a single view. I believe you can either give permission to modify all views, or none at all. These permissions are located under the user management page, via the settings tab/page. Select the user you want to give permission, edit, then select "Yes" for the "Allow Account to Customize Views" option.

bhilgenkamp_botw​ Also, any changes made to a page/view will be seen by any and all users who can access the page(s).

Ok yeah that's what I though but dodo123​ made it sounds like it could be controlled on a per-view basis for individual users. I hate that it's all or none for that ability.

I believe what he meant was, you can create/copy a page/view, and then assign that page a limitation. This would allow only a select group of users to access the page. Editing, on the other hand, is either all or nothing.

Ahh, I see. I was hoping there was a trick to allowing users to edit their own view/dashboard without changing anything globally. That would be a huge improvement as right now SolarWinds is very static for the end user. One thing I love about Splunk is the ability to create dashboards on the fly, and that doesn't affect any other users of the application. I think SolarWinds would be used a lot more here if teams or individuals had the ability to build their own views for what is best for them.

Actually, here's a good example. I'm the SolarWinds admin but prefer Splunk to keep an eye on the SolarWinds health as it's just easier and more flexible to see what I need. In a case like this I didn't need to have the Splunk admin set up a page for me; I have full control over what I want to see and can add/remove/change it at any time.

Actually, here's a good example. I'm the SolarWinds admin but prefer Splunk to keep an eye on the SolarWinds health as it's just easier and more flexible to see what I need. In a case like this I didn't need to have the Splunk admin set up a page for me; I have full control over what I want to see and can add/remove/change it at any time.

I completely agree with you. While it's not the same, I'd say the current PerfStack option is the closest SolarWinds has to the example above.

When I first saw PerfStack I was hoping it would be that easy, but man it's got a long way to go. One thing I would like to see is some kind of syntax like Splunk has for its searches. For example our server names include information on application, type of server, etc so if I want to see CPU for all of my NetPath servers it's this simple:

eventtype=cpu host=*swonpp* | timechart avg(cpu_load_percent) by host

That takes about 15 sec to do and then I have a chart with all of my SolarWinds Orion NetPath Probes CPU utilization. In PerfStack I have to search for the servers, select them in the list, add the entities, click on the first server, wait for the list of stats to load, find the stat I want and drag it to a chart, then repeat most of that for the next server. Oh and God forbid the name is too long, otherwise the PerfStack chart doesn't show the full name or word wrap onto another line, so now a screenshot of the chart is useless since no one knows which line is which.