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title: "Create new dashboards"
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description: "Create new dashboards in Netdata Cloud, with any number of metrics from any node on your infrastructure, for targeted troubleshooting."
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# Create new dashboards
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With Netdata Cloud, you can build new dashboards that put key metrics from any number of distributed systems in one
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place for a bird's eye view of your infrastructure. You can create more meaningful visualizations for troubleshooting or
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keep a watchful eye on your infrastructure's most meaningful metrics without moving from node to node.
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In the War Room you want to monitor with this dashboard, click on your War Room's dropdown, then click on the green **+
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Add** button next to **Dashboards**. In the panel, give your new dashboard a name, and click **+ Add**.
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Click the **Add Chart** button to add your first chart card. From the dropdown, select the node you want to add the
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chart from, then the context. Netdata Cloud shows you a preview of the chart before you finish adding it.
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The **Add Text** button creates a new card with user-defined text, which you can use to describe or document a
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particular dashboard's meaning and purpose. Enrich the dashboards you create with documentation or procedures on how to
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respond
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Charts in dashboards
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are [fully interactive](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md) and
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synchronized. You can
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pan through time, zoom, highlight specific timeframes, and more.
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Move any card by clicking on their top panel and dragging them to a new location. Other cards re-sort to the grid system
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automatically. You can also resize any card by grabbing the bottom-right corner and dragging it to its new size.
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Hit the **Save** button to finalize your dashboard. Any other member of the War Room can now access it and make changes.
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## Jump to single-node Cloud dashboards
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While dashboards help you associate essential charts from distributed nodes on a single pane of glass, you might need
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more detail when troubleshooting an issue. Quickly jump to any node's dashboard by clicking the 3-dot icon in the corner
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of any card to open a menu. Hit the **Go to Chart** item.
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Netdata Cloud takes you to the same chart on that node's dashboard. You can now navigate all that node's metrics and
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[interact with charts](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md) to
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further investigate anomalies or troubleshoot
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complex performance problems.
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When viewing a single-node Cloud dashboard, you can also click on the add to dashboard icon <img
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src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/87587846-827fdb00-c697-11ea-9f31-aed0b8c6afba.png" alt="Dashboard
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icon" class="image-inline" /> to quickly add that chart to a new or existing dashboard. You might find this useful when
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investigating an anomaly and want to quickly populate a dashboard with potentially correlated metrics.
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## Pin dashboards and navigate through Netdata Cloud
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Click on the **Pin** button in any dashboard to put those charts into a separate panel at the bottom of the screen. You
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can now navigate through Netdata Cloud freely, individual Cloud dashboards, the Nodes view, different War Rooms, or even
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different Spaces, and have those valuable metrics follow you.
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Pinning dashboards helps you correlate potentially related charts across your infrastructure and discover root causes
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faster.
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## What's next?
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While it's useful to see real-time metrics on flexible dashboards, you need ways to know precisely when an anomaly
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strikes. Every Netdata Agent comes with a health watchdog that
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uses [alarms](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/monitor/configure-alarms.md) and
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[notifications](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/monitor/enable-notifications.md) to notify you of
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issues seconds after they strike.
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