Panel on a VCF Operations dashboard (Heatmap, Scoreboard, Metric Chart, View, Object List and so on) displaying data about chosen objects.
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- VCF Operations
VCF's console for running the fleet. It covers alerting, monitoring, capacity, reporting, log analysis and licensing alongside fleet management of identity, passwords, certificates and lifecycle.
- Dashboard
Page in VCF Operations built from widgets that display object metrics, properties, alerts and relationships. Predefined and custom dashboards exist, and either kind can be shared.
- metric
Measurement over time that VCF Operations gathers for an object, such as CPU usage. A policy turns collection of each one on or off, or lets it inherit the setting.
- View
Shows a system through one chosen group of related concerns. No view is generic; each one is tied to whichever architecture it depicts.
- List
Permission on Key Vault secrets allowing a caller to enumerate those in a vault, though their values are not returned.
Related terms
- Burnup chart
Plots work done alongside total scope as time passes. GitHub Projects insights shows one by default, and Azure DevOps offers it as a multi-team dashboard widget.
- Cycle time
Azure Boards offers a widget for it: how long a work item takes between first reaching an In Progress state and reaching Completed. Lead time is counted from when the item was created.
- Dashboard navigation
Lets a click in one VCF Operations widget drive widgets on a separate dashboard, which then opens focused on that selection.
- Lead time
How long a work item takes from being created to being finished, charted by the Analytics-based Lead Time widget. Cycle time, by comparison, starts counting only once work begins.
- Test Results Trend (Advanced)
Driven by Analytics, this dashboard widget charts test outcomes over many builds and releases almost as they happen.
- view
Shows data collected by VCF Operations, such as alerts, properties or metrics, as a trend, summary, list, image, text or distribution. Views can be reused in reports and shown on dashboards through the View widget.
- widget interaction
Dashboard option in VCF Operations: selecting something in a providing widget changes what the receiving widgets show.