Personalize Your StatEngine Dashboards with the Analytics You Want

Creating custom visualizations in StatEngine

Logging in to your StatEngine dashboard allows you to measure various attributes of your organization’s service delivery using our curated visualizations. While this alone can provide powerful insights into your data, the real power of StatEngine is the ability to customize dashboards with your own visualizations and metrics.

In StatEngine, dashboards are built from a collection of related visualizations. As filters are applied to a dashboard, the visualizations are automatically updated, allowing the user to compare how the current filter impacts various facets of the data.

Each widget in the dashboard is a visualization.

Building a custom visualization in StatEngine is simple, but it can be intimidating at first, so let’s build one together. For this example, we’ll build an average response time metric that tells us the average amount of time it takes for the first apparatus to arrive after an incident is dispatched.

Desired output. Average response in seconds.

Creating the Visualization

1. Click Visualize on the left sidebar of the dashboard.
2. Click the “+” sign.
3. Select the “Metric” visualization type.
4. Under the From a New Search, Select Index caption, select the index that stores incident level data. This index will be in a format that conforms to the following naming convention: “<id>-<department-name>-fire-incident*”.
5. Select the drop down arrow next to the “Metric” label in the visualization configuration screen.
6. Change the aggregation type to “Average.”
7. Change the field to: “description.extended_data.response_duration.”
8. Type “Average Response Time” in the label field.
9. Click the play button to test out the new visualization.
10. Click “Save” on the top navigation bar and name your new visualization.

The entire workflow.

Adding the new visualization to a dashboard.

1. Starting from the dashboard. Click “Edit” on the top navbar.
2. Click “Add” on the top navbar.
3. Click on the name of your new visualization from the visualization list and it will be added to the bottom of your dashboard.

And thats it!

Now that you’ve added your first custom visualization you can begin experimenting with the different types of visualizations and aggregations that StatEngine offers. You can also check out the Kibana documentation for more examples!

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