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AWS IoT TwinMaker pre-built dashboards

The AWS IoT TwinMaker data source ships with two dashboard templates you can import and adapt: a main dashboard and an alarm dashboard.

Import a dashboard

The Dashboards tab on the data source configuration page

To import a pre-built dashboard:

  1. Open the AWS IoT TwinMaker data source configuration page and select the Dashboards tab.
  2. Click Import next to the dashboard template you want to load.
  3. Click the dashboard name to navigate to the imported dashboard.
  4. Edit the dashboard as desired, then click Save As to save your own copy.

Each dashboard starts with a collapsible Introduction row that explains how to resolve the initial panel errors, which come from template variables that don’t have values yet.

Main dashboard

The main dashboard demonstrates the full set of TwinMaker components working together. It’s built for the Cookie Factory example workspace, which you can set up from the AWS IoT TwinMaker samples GitHub repository. The dashboard includes:

  • A Scene Viewer panel that loads a scene and queries alarm data for its tags.
  • An Alarm List table backed by a Get Alarms query, with the register links transformation attached.
  • A Selected Alarm History state timeline and a Selected Time Series History panel, driven by the sel_entity and sel_comp variables.
  • A Video Player panel driven by the sel_video_entity, sel_video_comp, and kvs_stream_name variables.

Alarm dashboard

The alarm dashboard with a scene viewer, alarm list, and alarm history

The alarm dashboard focuses on monitoring and inspecting alarms in your workspace.

Prerequisites

Before using the alarm dashboard, ensure your workspace has:

  • Entities with a component that inherits its type from the base alarm type com.amazon.iottwinmaker.alarm.basic.
  • A scene in your workspace.
  • Tags in the scene with a data binding to alarm components.

Set up the alarm dashboard

The dashboard defines the sel_entity and sel_comp template variables to manage selections and fill in the query that shows the history of the alarm property alarm_status. It also defines an active_camera variable that stores the selected camera view from the Scene Viewer.

To set up the dashboard:

  1. Edit the Scene Viewer panel: select your scene in the panel options and your alarm component type ID in the query editor.
  2. Select a time range where your alarms have data.
  3. Select an alarm to populate the history panel. The history panel shows an error until the sel_entity and sel_comp variables have values. Set them by either:
    • Clicking an alarm in the alarm list, or
    • Clicking a tag in the scene that has a data binding with an alarm property.

How the dashboard sets template variables

The dashboard sets sel_entity and sel_comp dynamically in two ways:

  • Alarm list: The table panel has a transformation attached named Register links with AWS IoT TwinMaker. It defines rules that set template variable values from fields of the query response when you click a row. Refer to Register links transformation.
  • Scene Viewer: The panel options specify which template variables store the selected entity ID and component name when a tag is clicked in the scene.

Example dashboard in Grafana Play

Interact with a demo TwinMaker dashboard in Grafana Play. The dashboard monitors a cookie factory by visualizing a 3D factory, listing alarms, graphing temperature sensor history, and playing a video camera stream.