Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard

Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard

You can pin Azure resource details from blades to Azure Portal dashboard. Application Insight allows you to create Azure dashboard very effectively from the overview page. You may want similar dashboard for your Azure solution where you want to pin up specific resource details from different blades. For an instance, rather pinning the App Service, you want to pin only the App Services Audit logs to dashboard for quick monitoring.  Not only from blades, you can add up specific charts, or results from any specific azure resources to the Dashboard.

Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard

In general, to add any resources or resource group to the dashboard you can go to the Resource group or Resource Listing pages and then select Pin to Dashboard Option. This will add up the resources to the dashboard.

Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard - Pin Resources

If you want to add any specific blade to be pinned to the dashboard, you can do that by navigating to the blade and select pin to the dashboard.

Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard

You will find the pin option with almost every blade in Azure Portal and depends on the need you may push the selective pages to Azure Portal Dashboard. This will help you to directly navigate to selective pages rather pin the resource directly.

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This works well for all metrics and chart-related widgets as well. Most of the Charts and metrics has its independent pin option. Select the required chart and pin it to the dashboard.

Pin Azure Resource details from Blades to Azure Portal dashboard

With that, you can easily customize your dashboard with all required charts and resources. Also, you can also add up custom HTML to the dashboard.

 

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