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Code behind native widgets

Hi,

I wanted to create this morning a specific dashboards for our DBA users, which contains few SQL stuff (like SQL agent Job status for exemple).

On the AppInsight for SQL, the native dashboard contains a widget nammed "SQL agent Job Status". I wanted to filter this widget to only get the jobs in error, but there is no filter option.

My idea was the following one : create a custom SQL script to match my needs. The problem is that this work was already done by SolarWinds... I'm wasting time for something that is already existing.

2 questions :

- Generic question : Is there any place where we can see what is exactly done by all the default widgets ? Somewhere we can check the code behind and take inspiration ?

- Specific question : Do you have a best idea for the SQL job status ? Maybe an easier way to reach my goal ?

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