Customizing visualizations - Amazon IoT SiteWise Monitor
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Customizing visualizations

As a project owner, you can choose how to best view the asset properties and alarms that you add to your dashboard. You can control the visualization type and customize the visualization.

Changing visualization types

As the project owner, you decide how each asset property or alarm is best represented.

To change the visualization type
  1. Choose the Visualization type icon for the visualization to change.

    
              The icons used to configure a visualization with the "Visualization type" icon
                highlighted.
  2. In the visualization type bar, choose the icon for the type of visualization to apply.

    
              The visualization type picker.

    For more information, see Choosing visualization types.

  3. After you finish editing the dashboard, choose Save dashboard to save your changes. The dashboard editor closes. If you try to close a dashboard that has unsaved changes, you're prompted to save them.

Adding data to a visualization

As a project owner, you might want to show multiple asset properties and alarms in the same visualization. For example, you might show the temperature of all of your pumps, or the performance and efficiency for a single asset.

To add data to a visualization
  1. Drag the asset property or alarm that you want to add to a visualization. When you add a property that has an alarm, you also automatically add that alarm as a threshold.

    
              The "Added assets" panel with the delete control highlighted.
  2. After you finish editing the dashboard, choose Save dashboard to save your changes. The dashboard editor closes. If you try to close a dashboard that has unsaved changes, you're prompted to save them.

Removing data from a visualization

You can remove asset properties and alarms from visualizations to no longer display them.

To remove data from a visualization
  1. Choose the Added assets icon for the visualization to change.

    
              The icons used to configure a visualization with the "Added assets" icon
                highlighted.
  2. Choose the X icon on an asset property or alarm to remove it from the visualization.

    
              The "Added assets" panel with the delete control highlighted.
  3. After you finish editing the dashboard, choose Save dashboard to save your changes. The dashboard editor closes. If you try to close a dashboard that has unsaved changes, you're prompted to save them.

Deleting a visualization

As a project owner, if you decide that a visualization isn't needed, you can easily remove it from a dashboard.

To delete a visualization
  1. Choose the X icon for the visualization to remove.

    
              The icons used to configure a visualization with the "Delete icon"
                highlighted.
  2. After you finish editing the dashboard, choose Save dashboard to save your changes. The dashboard editor closes. If you try to close a dashboard that has unsaved changes, you're prompted to save them.