The Azure dashboards are well-organized workspaces where you can keep all your favorite Azure services in one place on a single page. You can create your dashboard based on your daily tasks, specific projects, etc. The Azure dashboard helps you quickly access your services and monitor the health of your applications and Azure services from one place. No need to navigate here and there. Now, you have some idea of What is Azure Portal Dashboard.
Azure Dashboard Tutorial
This article will discuss a complete tutorial on how to create/edit/clone/delete Azure dashboards from Azure Portal and some related FAQs on the same topic.
Create Azure Dashboard (Step-by-step guide)
Don’t think about the Azure dashboard login. You need to log in to the Azure Portal and Follow the below steps to create an Azure dashboard in the Azure Portal.
- Log in to the Azure Portal.
- Click on the Show Portal Menu option from the left top corner –> Click on the Dashboard option.
3. Click on the + New dashboard dropdown –> choose the Blank dashboard option.
4. You can drag the tiles from the Tile Gallery and drop them in the Workspace area (With this option, you can place the tiles in your preferred place ), or you can select the tiles on the Tile Gallery (For selecting multiple tiles at once hold the Ctrl key) –> Then click on the Add button (With this option it will add the tiles to a default location with a default size).
5. Finally, click on the Save button to save the changes. You can also click on the Preview button to preview the dashboard to know how it looks.
How to create an Azure dashboard using PowerShell
You can also use Azure PowerShell to create an Azure dashboard using the New-AzPortalDashboard Azure PowerShell cmdlet.
Prerequisites
Below are the prerequisites for creating an Azure PowerShell dashboard using Azure PowerShell.
- You must have an Azure subscription. If you don’t have an Azure subscription or account untill now, you can Create an Azure Free account now.
- You must install module Az -version 2.9.1 or higher.
- It is needed to have your Azure dashboard template or JSON file.
Once you have all the prerequisites, you can run the below command to create your Azure dashboard.
New-AzPortalDashboard -DashboardPath .\resources\MyCustomDashboard.json -ResourceGroupName Demo123 -DashboardName NewDashboardDo you want to explore the Azure dashboard download option? You will get it as a JSON file once you download the Azure dashboard.
Choose the Download option from the Export dropdown to download the JSON file of any existing Azure dashboard.
Read: Azure Dashboard Examples
How to Edit Azure Portal Dashboard
Now, if you want to add tiles, resize or edit any property of the tiles, or even rearrange the tiles, you can do that by following the instructions below.
Adding a new tile to the existing dashboard
- Click on the Edit option from the top toolbar.
2. Drag a new Tile from the Tile Gallery and drop it where you want on the workspace area –> Click on the Save button to save the changes.
Resize the tile on the existing dashboard
To resize a tile on the Azure dashboard, click on the three-dot menu or Context Menu and then choose the size as per your requirement –> Click on the Save button to save the changes.
