From the course: InfluxDB for Time Series Data: Ingest, Analyze, and Visualize Data

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Visualizing data: Building dashboards

Visualizing data: Building dashboards

- [Illustrator] Visualizing data is helpful, but being able to take quick action on data is what makes data so valuable. InfluxDB Cloud has built in dashboard functionality that is pretty intuitive to use. Today, we'll build a sample dashboard that can be used to monitor computer performance, similar to what you might build to monitor performance while playing a video game based on system CPU, disc and memory data coming from Telegraph. We'll go to the build a dashboard area and first we'll create a new dashboard. Going to name this dashboard CPU Monitoring and I'm going to add a cell. You'll notice that the cell looks pretty similar to our data explorer and this cell is going to be idle CPU usage. I am going to have a graph and single stat and then I'm going to go ahead to my streaming data CPU and I want to look at the auto usage data for the total computer. I'll submit. I have my data, the query looks good. I can…

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