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Widgets: Dashboards, Planning And Plots

Use these widgets when the surface is metric-heavy, chart-heavy, or built around visual density.

Compact metrics and status

WidgetUse it forCapabilitiesGood example
StatsCardsmall grouped metricskeyed metric/value blocks inside one cardOpsWatch
Gaugebounded status readingscompact gauge-style state displaydashboards
ProgressBarsingle progress dimensionbounded 0..1 progress with label/titleworkflows and transfers
Badgesmall semantic indicatorstone-driven state chips and countsrails and cards
MiniLogtiny embedded log stripcompact recent-event textdashboards and sidebars
HealthBoardservice/status health viewservice health rows, glyphs, ack-style semanticsOpsWatch

Chart and plot widgets

WidgetUse it forCapabilitiesGood example
Sparklinetiny trend linescompact historical trend hintscards and dense panels
TelemetryChartrolling telemetry tracescompact streaming telemetry with render modesOpsWatch
LineChartsimple line seriesstraightforward trend plottingdashboards
AreaPlotfilled trend historyarea-under-line visual emphasismonitoring panels
ScatterPlotpoint clusterspoint-distribution analysisanalytics views
BoxPlotdistribution summariesquartiles/spread/outlier-style summariesanalytics views
Histogrambucketed distributionscounts across numeric rangesanalytics views
LinePlotdenser plotting surfacericher line plotting with options/render modesanalytics/workbench surfaces
PlotPanelframed plot hostplotting container with panel affordancesadvanced dashboard panels
BulletCharttarget versus actualcompact performance-against-goal viewscorecards
BarChartcategory comparisonper-category bar valuescategory metrics
Heatmapcell intensity gridsdense two-dimensional signal mappingDataWorkbench
TreeMapChartweighted hierarchical areasnested weighted rectanglesportfolio/usage views

Dashboard and planning layout widgets

WidgetUse it forCapabilitiesGood example
DashboardGridtile-based dashboardsexplicit dashboard tile arrangementdashboards
CalendarMonthViewmonth calendarsdate-grid viewing and date selectionplanning screens
SchedulerTimelineschedule/timeline planningtime-ordered entries and selectionplanning/ops scheduling
KanbanBoardlane-based flow trackingcards grouped by lane/stateworkflow boards