Building Widgets
Widgets are the building blocks of every dashboard. Each widget displays a specific metric, chart, or report, allowing you to monitor cloud costs, AI usage, infrastructure, savings opportunities, and operational insights from a single dashboard.
To add a widget:
Open a dashboard.
Click Add Widget.
Select a widget creation method.
Configure the widget.
Add it to your dashboard.
Choose a Widget Creation Method
When you click Add Widget, OneLens provides two ways to create widgets.
Simple Widget Creator – Quickly add widgets using pre-configured reports and templates.
Query Builder – Build fully customized widgets by selecting your own data source, metrics, filters, and visualization.
Choose between the Simple Widget Creator for a guided experience or the Query Builder for complete customization.
Build a Widget using Query Builder
The Query Builder guides you through a series of steps to create a widget.
Step 1 : Select a Data Source
Begin by selecting the data source that contains the information you want to visualize.
Available modules may include:
Cost360
AI Cost & Usage
Kubernetes
Tickets & Insights
Policies
Anomalies
Budgets
Commitments
The available modules depend on your OneLens deployment.
Step 2 : Configure the Widget
Choose the data you want to display.
Configure the following:
Metric – Select the value to measure (for example, Cost, Savings, Token Usage, or Requests).
Aggregation – Choose how the data should be calculated, such as Sum, Average, Maximum, or Count.
Group By – Organize results by one or more dimensions such as Service, Account, Region, or Environment.
Top N (optional) – Limit the results to the highest-ranking records.
The available metrics and aggregations depend on the selected data source.
Step 3 : Apply Filters
Filters help narrow the data displayed in the widget.
You can filter by dimensions supported by the selected data source, including:
Date Range
Account
Service
Region
Environment
Cost Center
Cloud Provider
You can also configure the reporting granularity, such as Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, where supported.
Step 4 : Select a Visualization
Choose how the results should be displayed.
Dashboard V2 supports multiple visualization types, including:
KPI Card
Column Chart
Line Chart
Area Chart
Pie Chart
Table
Leaderboard
Treemap
Heatmap
Only visualization types compatible with the selected data are available.
Provide a widget name, review the preview, and click Add Widget to place it on the dashboard.
Supported Visualizations
Dashboard V2 automatically recommends and enables visualization types based on the selected data.
KPI Card
Single metrics
Column Chart
Category comparisons
Line Chart
Trends over time
Area Chart
Continuous trends
Pie Chart
Distribution analysis
Leaderboard
Rankings
Table
Detailed analysis
Treemap
Hierarchical breakdowns
Heatmap
Two-dimensional comparisons
After Adding a Widget
Once added, widgets can be:
Moved using drag-and-drop
Resized
Edited
Deleted
Changes are not saved automatically. Click Save Changes to persist your dashboard layout.
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