How it works...

The first thing we need to do is enter the dashboard view itself by clicking on the Dashboard link in the main menu. Once there, we can load as many graphs as we desire to view at once. The first step is to navigate through the Graphs menu as seen here:

Once we have added one or more graphs using this method, we have created our dashboard. When we installed collectd, we also enabled the system load plugin, which reports how busy the server is. We took the opportunity to create a graph for this and saved it as an example. Your dashboard may look different, but ours has these two saved graphs:

To save this dashboard, we can ...

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