# Dashboards

This section describes the functionality of the ThousandEyes dashboards.

## About Dashboards

ThousandEyes *dashboards* are a way to see customized live views of your test data, or Internet Insights collective intelligence. For example, if you’ve subscribed to Internet Insights packages, you can set up a dashboard that shows application outages related to your main SaaS provider, alongside Internet outages that affect your users’ ability to access those domains.

Dashboards are composed of *widgets* including maps, tables, bar and pie charts, and various other types of visual charting, as shown below. See [Dashboard Widget Types](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/dashboards/dashboard-widgets#dashboard-widget-types).

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ThousandEyes offers a series of pre-configured dashboards, which you can use as-is, or duplicate the built-in dashboards and then modify the copies.

Creating a new dashboard involves:

* Providing a name
* Adding widgets
* Configuring each widget, starting with a data source (cloud and enterprise agents, endpoint agent browser sessions, or endpoint scheduled tests).

From there, you can choose various metrics and drill-down filtering to surface the data that you care about.

You can duplicate, create, and share dashboards with other ThousandEyes users within your organization, as described in [Dashboard Sharing and Snapshots](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/dashboards/dashboard-shares-snapshots). You can also embed selected dashboard widgets into external web sites for use by viewers outside of your ThousandEyes organization, as described in [Embedding Dashboard Widgets in External Web Sites](https://product-documentation/dashboards/embedding-dashboard-widgets-in-external-web-sites)

## Additional Resources

The following resources provide further information:

* [Dashboard Sharing and Snapshots](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/dashboards/dashboard-shares-snapshots) describes how to share data from ThousandEyes dashboards, including via regularly scheduled snapshots.
* The [Embedding Dashboard Widgets in External Websites](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/dashboards/embedding-dashboard-widgets-in-external-web-sites) article will guide you through the process of creating chunks of HTML code that display individual report widgets and can be instantly added to your existing NOC dashboards.
* The [ThousandEyes Developer Reference for the dashboards API](https://developer.cisco.com/docs/thousandeyes/v7/#!dashboards-api-overview) walks you through how to create, edit, delete, and manage your dashboard through our API.


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