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authorJoel Hans <joel@netdata.cloud>2021-01-07 09:53:10 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-01-07 09:53:10 -0700
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Small updates, improvements, and housekeeping to docs (#10405)
* Fix Berkeley mentions * Add new collectors to list * Tweak Prometheus/OpenMetrics phrasing * Fix heading depth in performance guide * Clarify that exporting starts with Agent start * Clarify usage of edit-config with new files * Update images * service -> systemctl * Reverse systemctl order
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-rw-r--r--docs/visualize/create-dashboards.md17
-rw-r--r--docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md6
-rw-r--r--docs/visualize/overview-infrastructure.md2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/docs/visualize/create-dashboards.md b/docs/visualize/create-dashboards.md
index d4bcf71c1f..91a8dccccc 100644
--- a/docs/visualize/create-dashboards.md
+++ b/docs/visualize/create-dashboards.md
@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@ In the War Room you want to monitor with this dashboard, click on your War Room'
Add** button next to **Dashboards**. In the panel, give your new dashboard a name, and click **+ Add**.
Click the **Add Chart** button to add your first chart card. From the dropdown, select the node you want to add the
-chart from, then the context. Netdata Cloud shows you a preview of the chart before you finish adding it. The **Add
-Text** button creates a new card with user-defined text, which you can use to describe or document a particular
-dashboard's meaning and purpose.
+chart from, then the context. Netdata Cloud shows you a preview of the chart before you finish adding it.
-![An example multi-node dashboard for system CPU
-metrics](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93399129-c1661480-f831-11ea-9570-a5bd401f54db.png)
+The **Add Text** button creates a new card with user-defined text, which you can use to describe or document a
+particular dashboard's meaning and purpose. Enrich the dashboards you create with documentation or procedures on how to
+respond
+
+![A bird's eye dashboard for a single
+node](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/102650776-a654ba80-4128-11eb-9a65-4f9801b03d4b.png)
Charts in dashboards are [fully interactive](/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md) and synchronized. You can
pan through time, zoom, highlight specific timeframes, and more.
@@ -41,7 +43,8 @@ complex performance problems.
When viewing a single-node Cloud dashboard, you can also click on the add to dashboard icon <img
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/87587846-827fdb00-c697-11ea-9f31-aed0b8c6afba.png" alt="Dashboard
-icon" class="image-inline" /> to quickly add that chart to a new or existing dashboard. You might find this useful when investigating an anomaly and want to quickly populate a dashboard with potentially correlated metrics.
+icon" class="image-inline" /> to quickly add that chart to a new or existing dashboard. You might find this useful when
+investigating an anomaly and want to quickly populate a dashboard with potentially correlated metrics.
## Pin dashboards and navigate through Netdata Cloud
@@ -49,8 +52,6 @@ Click on the **Pin** button in any dashboard to put those charts into a separate
can now navigate through Netdata Cloud freely, individual Cloud dashboards, the Nodes view, different War Rooms, or even
different Spaces, and have those valuable metrics follow you.
-![Pinning a dashboard and navigate through Cloud](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93499810-4e5bad00-f8c8-11ea-9b3f-173d4ba0aaa7.gif)
-
Pinning dashboards helps you correlate potentially related charts across your infrastructure and discover root causes
faster.
diff --git a/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md b/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md
index dd1d10a9af..30503c2202 100644
--- a/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md
+++ b/docs/visualize/interact-dashboards-charts.md
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Whenever you use a chart in this way, Netdata synchronizes all the other charts
| **Zoom** to a specific timeframe | `SHIFT` + `mouse selection` | | |
| **Zoom** in/out | `SHIFT`/`ALT` + `mouse scrollwheel` | `SHIFT`/`ALT` + `two-finger pinch` (touchpad/touchscreen) | `SHIFT`/`ALT` + `two-finger scroll` (touchpad/touchscreen) |
-![Animated GIF of the standard Netdata dashboard being manipulated and synchronizing
-charts](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93497197-071fed00-f8c5-11ea-96ff-60e77ed952bd.gif)
+![Animated GIF of interacting with Netdata
+charts](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/102652236-051b3380-412b-11eb-8f7c-a2372ed92cd0.gif)
These interactions can also be triggered using the icons on the bottom-right corner of every chart. They are,
respectively, `Pan Left`, `Reset`, `Pan Right`, `Zoom In`, and `Zoom Out`.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ You can resize any chart by clicking-and-dragging the icon on the bottom-right c
to its original height, double-click the same icon.
![Resizing a chart and resetting it to the default
-height](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/93497272-1acb5380-f8c5-11ea-851c-6cd5ac247e41.gif)
+height](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/102652691-24b25c00-412b-11eb-9e2c-95325fcedc67.gif)
### Composite charts in Netdata Cloud
diff --git a/docs/visualize/overview-infrastructure.md b/docs/visualize/overview-infrastructure.md
index 63a0bad7fb..675abd745b 100644
--- a/docs/visualize/overview-infrastructure.md
+++ b/docs/visualize/overview-infrastructure.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ anomalies, then drill down with filtering or single-node dashboards to see more.
each chart visualizes average or sum metrics values from across 5 distributed nodes.
![The War Room
-Overview](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/95912630-e75ed600-0d57-11eb-8a3b-49e883d16833.png)
+Overview](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/102651377-b1f4b100-4129-11eb-8e60-d2995d258c16.png)
## Using the Overview