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A unified dashboard to view instance key metric details

January 8, 2024
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In NetScaler Console, you can view various insights about the usage and performance of applications, NetScaler infrastructure, security (Bot and WAF) violations, and so on. As an administrator, you might have to navigate to various options in the NetScaler Console GUI to view multiple insights. For example, to check the virtual servers (applications) and NetScaler instance insights:

  • You must first navigate to Applications > Dashboard to view insights for applications.

  • Then you must navigate to Infrastructure > Infrastructure Analytics to view insights for NetScaler instances.

For a better monitoring experience, it is necessary for you to have a privilege that contains an overview of all the required insights. Navigate to Overview > Dashboard to visualize a single-pane dashboard with an overview of the key metrics details based on the following categories:

  • Applications

  • NetScaler Infrastructure

  • Application security

  • Gateway

  • API analytics

Applications

Under Applications, you can view:

  • Application Health – Provides an overview of applications that are in Down and Out-of-Service, and based on their status such as Critical, In Review, Good, and Not Applicable. Click View All Applications to view details in App Dashboard.

  • Golden Signal Anomalies – Provides an overview of applications that have server errors and response time anomalies. Click View Details for more information.

  • Application Config Optimization – Provides an overview of total applications that have performance issues. Click See More to view issue details in app dashboard.

  • SSL Certificates – Provides an overview of SSL certificates along with their validity. Click Manage SSL Certificates to view more information in SSL dashboard.

  • Application SSL Config Optimization – Provides an overview of total applications that have SSL related issues. Click See More to view issue details.

    Applications key metrics

NetScaler Infrastructure

Under NetScaler Infrastructure, you can view the following NetScaler instance related key metrics:

  • NetScaler Instance Health – Provides an overview of total NetScaler instances based on the instance score.

  • NetScaler Instances impacted by CVEs – Provides an overview of total NetScaler instances that are impacted with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). For more information, see Security Advisory.

  • NetScaler Instance Issues – Provides an overview of NetScaler instance issues depending upon the issue category. For more information, see Infrastructure Analytics.

  • NetScaler Instance Upgrade Summary – Provides an overview of total NetScaler instances that are not on the latest build. Click View NetScaler Instances Dashboard for more information.

    NetScaler instance key metrics

Application Security

Provides an overview of total affected applications and total violations (Bot and WAF) reported for the selected duration. Click View Security Dashboard to view the security and bot violation details.

Security violation key metrics

Gateway

Provides an overview of total active gateway users, total active ICA users, and total active ICA connections. You can also view errors, user logon details, and a geo map that provides details on the user locations.

Gateway key metrics

API Analytics

Provides an overview of the performance and usage of the API endpoints configured through NetScaler Console. You can view the:

  • Distribution of application and server response time for API endpoints.

  • Endpoints with high application and server response time.

    API gateway key metrics

Customize dashboard

You can use the Edit dashboard option and customize the dashboard view based on your choice. Using the Edit dashboard option, you can:

  • Drag widgets

  • Remove the whole widget (Applications, NetScaler Infrastructure, Gateway, or Application Security).

  • Remove the smaller widgets present under each widget.

  • Click Add widget and select the required key metrics that you want to view under each widget.

    Edit dashboard

  • Reset to default

  • Reset to last saved

After making changes, click Save.

Note

  • By default, all widgets are displayed. If you customize the dashboard, save the changes, and again use the Reset to default option, all widgets get added to the dashboard.

  • The Reset to last saved option loads the previously saved configuration.

View agent details

In the unified dashboard, you can visualize an overview of agent details. In Overview > Dashboard, next to the Agent Status, you can view the following status that enables you to analyze the overall agent availability:

  • All available. Indicates all agents are up and running.

  • All unavailable. Indicates all agents are down and not accessible.

  • [number of agents] unavailable. Indicates a few agents are down and not accessible.

  • All out of service. Indicates all agents are in out of service.

  • [number of agents] out of service. Indicates a few agents are in out of service.

  • External agent not found. Indicates no agent (through any hypervisors) is configured.

Click View Details to visualize an overview of agent details such as total in-built agents, total external agents, agent IP, status, system usage, diagnostic checks, and so on.

Agent overview

Create and apply filters

You can apply filters and view insights only for the selected instances or applications in the following:

  • Applications

  • NetScaler Infrastructure

  • Application Security

By default, all applications are selected. You can create a customized filer from the dashboard by clicking the filters icon available in the tile.

In the Filter Applications window:

  1. Select Create new filter.

  2. Provide a filter name based on your choice.

  3. Click Select Applications and add all the required applications for the filter. When you select applications, you can also use the filters (Application Name and Type) and then select applications.

    Select apps

  4. Click Create and Apply filter.

Create and apply filter

The filter is now created and applied. You can create more filters by following the same procedure. After you create filters, you can select and apply filters through the Select filter from existing filters list.

Select filter

Edit filters

You can edit a filter by selecting the filter from the list and clicking Edit. Using the edit option, you can add or remove applications and then update the filter.

Edit filters

To delete a filter, select the filter from the list and click Delete.

Note

When you create a filter with applications and if one of the applications is deleted in the app dashboard, the application details are removed immediately from the unified dashboard.

A unified dashboard to view instance key metric details
January 8, 2024
Contributed by: 
C
January 8, 2024
Contributed by: 
C

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