At ControlUp, we believe that data is only as powerful as your ability to access, understand, and act on it. That’s why we’re proud to unveil our Big Screen Dashboard, a fully functional, customer-ready dashboard powered entirely by our API and built using Grafana.
Developed by our Innovation Guild, this dashboard is not intended to replace the ControlUp web UI or console. Instead, it serves as a visual recipe book, displaying the depth, quality, and versatility of the real-time telemetry available across our platform, all visualized in a single pane of glass.
The Big Screen Dashboard was specifically designed for use in help desks or operations centers, displayed on large screens (such as TVs), providing continuous visibility into the state of your digital workspace environment. It brings together data from across the entire ControlUp platform into a single, unified view.
The layout is organized in rows and can include over 40 widgets. You can drag, drop, and arrange to create a customized dashboard tailored to your needs, which can be used for monitoring, alerting, or performance visibility.
Innovation Guild Tool
This tool is experimental and not officially supported by ControlUp Support.
Dashboard as a Blueprint
This is not a new product or a new dashboard inside the ControlUp platform. It is a reference implementation that highlights what’s possible when you combine our powerful backend with your own reporting or visualization stack.
You can use any of the panels (or “recipes”) from this dashboard to:
Integrate them into your own Grafana or Power BI dashboards
Use them to generate automated reports
Share real-time insights with stakeholders outside the ControlUp platform and console
We’re giving you not just the data, but the building blocks to create what your organization needs.
Privacy and Data Considerations
The dashboard queries our API live to populate the widgets within Grafana. As a result, data is temporarily cached in the Grafana dashboard environment.
To maintain full control over your data, we recommend using your own self-hosted Grafana instance (for example, on Linux or via Docker). While it’s also possible to use the Grafana Cloud (SaaS) version, be aware that in this case, data is cached in Grafana’s cloud environment.
The setup process requires storing API keys within Grafana. By default, these keys cannot be viewed after they are configured.
For security, we strongly recommend all the following:
Enabling authentication in Grafana with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Using strong passwords
Creating unique user accounts for each individual user