Sharing and Embedding Dashboard Tiles

To get a public access link for a monitor or group tile, open the Options menu for that tile and select Share Tile.

You can send this link to other people in your company or to external partners so they can see your monitor status without requiring an AlertSite login.

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Shared tiles display the monitor status for the last 24 hours. The tiles automatically refresh every minute for the latest status updates. You can hover over the charts to view the availability and response time values for a specific hour.

The View in AlertSite button, which is displayed on hover, will bring you to the AlertSite dashboard with detailed results for this monitor or group. (Requires AlertSite login.)

Tile links have this format:

The query parameters are optional, and can be used to change the tile appearance.

theme

timeframe

externalLink=hide

When you generate a link, the parameter values used in the link reflect your current Dashboard theme and time frame.

You can also embed monitor tiles into other web pages by using the HTML iframe element. To do that, add the following code in your web page’s HTML code:

Replace TILE_LINK with the tile’s public link that you get via the  Share Tile command.

If creating a web page from scratch, you can use the template below. Simply paste your tile links into placeholders, and save as an .htm file.

AlertSite tiles can be embedded into any third-party dashboards that can display external web pages. Some dashboards may need just the tile link to embed, others may need the HTML iframe code. Below are some examples.

Datadog

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Datadog dashboards of the ScreenBoard type can display external web pages using the iFrame widget.

To add an AlertSite monitor tile to a Datadog dashboard:

• In the Datadog sidebar, select Dashboards > Dashboard List.

• Create a new dashboard of the ScreenBoard type, or edit an existing dashboard.

• Drag the iFrame widget onto the board and paste your AlertSite tile link as the iFrame source.

  

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• Resize the widget to a suitable size.

• Add other AlertSite monitor tiles if needed.

• Save the dashboard.

You can now view the specified monitor tiles in Datadog.

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PagerDuty

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PagerDuty lets you add external web pages to the Add-ons menu in the PagerDuty dashboard. These pages can be viewed directly in PagerDuty. This way, you can display AlertSite monitor tiles in PagerDuty.

• In PagerDuty, select Configurations > Extensions from the top menu.

• Switch to the Add-ons tab and click New Add-on.

  

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• Enter a name for the menu item, choose Its own page, and enter the tile link copied from AlertSite.

• Click Save.

• Optionally add other tiles as add-ons if needed.

The specified monitor tiles now appear in the Add-ons menu in PagerDuty.

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As an alternative to embedded tiles, you can query AlertSite Report API and build custom dashboards and charts from the data.