This topic provides a brief description of the dashboard widgets in LoadMaster 360.

Some widgets have a selectable time interval in the top-right corner, for example, Last hour. The exact timeframe is also shown in the bottom-left of the widget. Some widgets show current information (not information over a time period) - these widgets have a greyed-out clock symbol in the top-right.

The following sections are broken down by the widget categories in LoadMaster 360.

Applications

The application widgets are briefly described below:
  • Application Connections: Provides details about the application metric selected when adding the widget. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • Total Connections Per Second
    • Total Established Connections
    • Connection rate blocked
    • Request rate blocked
    • Maximum connections blocked
  • Application Health: Provides a visual indication of how many applications are in a healthy, warning, or critical state. When you click any of the states (Healthy, Warning, or Critical) in this widget, the Applications page displays and is filtered based on the state selected.
  • Application Overview: This widget uses a table to display the details about the application performance, including the:
    • Name
    • Status
    • Critical Events
    • Warning Events
    • Virtual Services

    You can sort the entries in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order by using the up/down arrow options in the table header. You can select the relevant time span to display details for, for example, for the Last hour, Last 6 hours, Last 12 hours, and so on.

  • Application RTT/SRT/RTR (Round Trip Time/Server Response Time/Retransmission): Provides information about the Virtual Service and Real Server performance statistics, including retransmission data. You can select the relevant time span to display details for, for example, for the Last hour, Last 6 hours, Last 12 hours, and so on.
  • Applications WAF: Provides details about the Web Application Firewall (WAF) metric selected when adding the widget. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • WAF Requests
    • WAF Incidents
    • WAF Requests Total
    • WAF Incidents Total
  • Client to server time statistics: This widget uses a chart that shows the average time required to complete a single transaction, such as an HTTP request.
    From left to right, this pane displays the following timing information:
    • Client RTT
    • Server RTT
    • Client RTR
    • Server RTR

    You can select the relevant time span to display details for, for example, for the Last hour, Last 6 hours, Last 12 hours, and so on.

  • Real Server Application Connections: Provides connection details for the specified application and Real Server.
  • Virtual Services Connections: Provides connection details for a single specified Virtual Service. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • Connections per second
    • Established Connections
    • Connection rate blocked
    • Request rate blocked
    • Maximum connections blocked
  • Virtual Service WAF: Provides details about the specified WAF metric for a particular Virtual Service. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • WAF Requests
    • WAF Incidents
    • WAF Requests Total
    • WAF Incidents Total

CPU

The CPU widgets are briefly described below:
  • CPU Utilization: Provides details about the specified CPU metric. Relevant metrics are:
    • Total CPU
    • User CPU Usage
    • System CPU Usage
  • Top CPU Devices: Provides a table of devices, sorted by default by the highest CPU usage. You can click a LoadMaster name in the Name column to navigate to the LoadMaster details page. The color in the CPU Usage bar shows as green for 69% and under, orange for 70-84%, and red from 85% upwards.

Certificates

The only certificates widget at present is the Expiring Certificates widget. This provides a visual indication of how many certificates are:
  • Expired
  • Expiring in less than 30 days
  • Expiring in less than 90 days
  • Expiring in more than 90 days
When you click any of the states (Expired, Less than 30 days, Less than 90 days, or Greater than 90 days), the Certificates page is displayed.
The widget also includes a badge that displays the status of the certificates. There are four possible badge statuses:
  • Expired: Displayed when there are one or more expired certificates.
  • Healthy: Displayed when there are no certificates expiring in less than 30 days.
  • At Risk: Displayed when there are one or more certificates expiring in less than 30 days.
  • Empty: Displayed when no certificates are detected.

Connector

The only connector widget at present is the Connectors health widget. This provides a visual indication of how many connectors are in a healthy, warning, or critical state.

ESP

The Edge Security Pack (ESP) widgets are only shown when LoadMasters with ESP-enabled licenses have been added to LoadMaster 360. The ESP widgets are briefly described below:
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  • Active Blocked List: Provides a list of users who are on the blocked list. It also provides the relevant domain, the time the user was blocked, and the relevant Virtual Service IP address. You can sort the data by clicking on each of the column titles.
  • Active SSO Sessions Per Domain: Displays a stacked line chart showing a separate series of active Single Sign On (SSO) sessions for the individual domain in addition to the sum of all available domains. When you hover over the lines you get a breakdown of the Day, Domain, and Number of Sessions. You can filter by domain by clicking a domain under the chart.
  • Failed SSO: Displays a stacked bar chart showing a breakdown of failed SSO authentications and timeouts. When you hover over the bars you get a breakdown of the number of failed authentications and timeouts. Clicking one of the bars provides you with a per-day view.
  • Successful Authentications: Displays a heatmap chart showing an hourly breakdown of the SSO authentication counts on weekly basis. When you hover over the bars you get a breakdown of the SSO authentication count for the individual domain in addition to the total number of SSO authentication per hour/day.
  • Top 10 Client IP's: Provides a table listing the top 10 clients with the most connections. You can sort the data by clicking on each of the column titles.
  • Top 10 URI Requests: Provides a table listing the top 10 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) with the most requests. You can sort the data by clicking on each of the column titles.

Incidents

This widget uses two graphs to display a list of all the issue types based on their severity and issue statuses.
  • Issue severity graph
    • Critical
    • Warning
    • Total issues
  • Issue status graph
    • Resolved
    • Unresolved
    • Total issues

When you click any of the issue states (Critical, Warning, Resolved, or Unresolved) in this widget, the Incidents center page displays and is filtered based on the state selected.

You can select the relevant time span to display details for, for example, for the Last hour, Last 6 hours, Last 12 hours, and so on.

LoadMaster

The LoadMaster widgets are briefly described below:
  • Disk Utilization: This widget provides utilization details for the specified device.
  • LoadMaster Connections: Provides details about the LoadMaster metric selected when adding the widget. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • Current connections blocked
    • Connection attempts blocked
    • Request attempts blocked
    • Matched rules blocked
  • LoadMaster Health: Provides a visual indication of how many LoadMasters are in a stable, at risk, or critical state. When you click any of the states (Stable, At risk, or Critical) in this widget, the Infrastructure page displays and is filtered based on the LoadMaster state selected.
  • LoadMaster Overview: This widget uses a table to display the details about the LoadMaster performance, including the:
    • Name
    • Status
    • Model
    • Version
    • CPU Usage
    • Memory in Use

You can sort the entries in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order by using the up/down arrow options in the table header.

Memory

The memory widgets are briefly described below:
  • Memory Utilization: Provides memory utilization details for the specified device.
  • Top Memory Devices: Provides a table of devices, sorted by default by the highest memory usage. You can click a LoadMaster name in the Name column to navigate to the LoadMaster details page. The color in the memory Usage bar shows as green for 69% and under, orange for 70-84%, and red from 85% upwards.

Network

The network widgets are briefly described below:

  • Network Traffic: Provides details on the selected metric for the specified device. Relevant metrics for this widget are:
    • Network In
    • Network Out
    • Network In (Total)
    • Network Out (Total)
  • SSL Utilization: Provides SSL utilization details for the specified device.

WAF

The WAF widgets are briefly described below:
  • Blocked Requests: Displays the total number of blocked requests and the percentage of total requests that were blocked.
  • Events by location for LoadMaster: Displays the total number of requests handled for the selected LoadMaster (or LoadMasters) and their locations.
  • False Positives: Displays the total number of false positive events detected in the last 24 hours.
  • Top 10 Blocked Requests by URL: Displays the total number of blocked requests based on the URL for the selected applications or LoadMasters. The table provides details relating to the top 10 requests blocked based on the URL, including the related URL, application, and total number of requests.
  • Top 10 Blocked Requests by IP: Displays the total number of requests blocked based on the client IP address for the selected applications or LoadMasters. The table provides details relating to the top 10 requests blocked based on the client IP address, including the related client IP address, application, and total number of requests.
  • Top 10 Executed Rules: Displays the top 10 executed WAF rules for the selected applications or LoadMasters. The table provides details of the top 10 executed rules, including the Rule ID, Rule Group, Application, and the total number of requests the rule was executed on.
  • Total Requests: Displays the total number of requests handled by the WAF.

You can select the relevant time span to display details for requests handled by the WAF, for example, for the Last hour, Last 6 hours, Last 12 hours, and so on.