Adding and arranging Explore dashboard components

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The information in this article covers the new Explore dashboard builder, released in November 2024. The legacy dashboard builder will remain available until Q4 2025. If you’re using the legacy dashboard builder and need help, see About the legacy Explore dashboard builder.

After you create a dashboard, you can add reports, filters, text, and other components to it. Components enable you to build unique dashboards and give your agents the flexibility to analyze the data they need.

You can add components only to custom dashboards (see Creating dashboards) or cloned prebuilt dashboards (see Cloning Explore dashboards).

For help customizing components after you've added them, see Customizing dashboards.

This article contains the following topics:

• Adding components
• Arranging components

Adding components

There are three types of component you can add: static, interactive, and (if you have Explore Enterprise) live data.

• Static components don't affect report results or how users interact with your dashboard. Static componenets include reports, text, and tabs.

  For more information about adding a report to a dashboard, see Adding reports to dashboards.

• Interactive components let users specify which report results to view and how to view them. With interactive components, viewers can change a report's metrics or attributes, filter results, and use what-if variables.

  For more information about adding and editing interactive components, see Adding interactive dashboard components.

• Live data components (available with Explore Enterprise) enable you to add live data to your dashboards, which update in near real-time.

  For more information about adding live data and filters, see Adding live data and live filter components to dashboards.

You can add different types of components to the same dashboard, but interactive components might require additional configuration steps.

To add a component

1. Create a new dashboard or open an existing one.
2. In the dashboard builder, click + in the top-right toolbar.

   

3. Select the component you want from the drop-down list. The component is added to the top-left corner of your dashboard.

Arranging components

You can arrange components by dragging and dropping them anywhere you want in the dashboard. You can also drag the corners of the component to change its size.

Explore will automatically rearrange components based on the following settings in the layout menu ():

• Place anywhere: You can place components anywhere you want. However, Explore will dynamically rearrange overlapping components.
• Align to top: Components are arranged along their top edge.
• Align to left: Components are arranged along their left edge.