6.4

Introducing the Horizon Dashboards
You can use the precongured Horizon dashboards to monitor the performance of your Horizon
environment.
Table 1‑1. Horizon Dashboard Summary
Horizon Dashboard What It Shows When To Use It
“Horizon Overview
Dashboard,” on page 9
Status of your end-to-end Horizon
environment, including the top Horizon-
related alerts.
n
Assess Horizon pod usage, client
performance, and the overall
user experience
n
View the top Horizon-related
alerts
“Horizon Help Desk
Dashboard,” on page 10
Detailed information about all connected
sessions running in your vRealize Operations
for Horizon environment.
n
View detailed information about
all connected sessions running in
your vRealize Operations for
Horizon environment
n
View all existing alerts of the
system.
“Horizon Infrastructure
Dashboard,” on page 11
Information about the health, workload, and
connectivity of infrastructure hosts, remote
desktops, datastores, and RDS hosts in your
Horizon environment.
n
Understand the relationships
between objects in your Horizon
infrastructure
n
Assess the underlying vSphere
and Horizon infrastructure
“Horizon User Sessions
Dashboard,” on page 11
Metrics and performance information for all
types of sessions, including VDI desktop
sessions, RDS desktop sessions, and
application sessions.
n
Identify and troubleshoot poorly
performing remote sessions
“Horizon VDI Pools
Dashboard,” on page 12
Metrics and performance information for VDI
pools.
n
Troubleshoot poorly performing
desktop virtual machines and
sessions
“Horizon RDS Pools
Dashboard,” on page 13
Metrics and performance information for RDS
pools.
N This dashboard is specic to Horizon
6.x and later environments.
n
Identify the RDS hosts that are
using the most resources
n
Troubleshoot poorly performing
RDS desktop and application
sessions
“Horizon Applications
Dashboard,” on page 14
Status and performance information for
application pools and their associated farms,
RDS hosts, application sessions, applications,
and Horizon clients.
N This dashboard is specic to Horizon
6.x and later environments.
n
Understand the relationships
between objects in your
application infrastructure
n
Troubleshoot remote
applications
“Horizon Desktop Usage
Dashboard,” on page 14
Usage data for all of the desktop pools in your
Horizon environment, including VDI desktop
pools.
n
View active and disconnected
sessions and identify session
trends for selected desktop pools
n
View top alerts for selected
desktop pools
n
Collect in-guest process data
from desktop sessions
“Horizon User Session Details
Dashboard,” on page 15
Detailed information about all types of
sessions running in your Horizon
environment, including VDI desktop sessions,
RDS desktop sessions, and application
sessions.
n
Troubleshoot poorly performing
sessions
n
Identify when session problems
occurred
n
Collect in-guest process data
from desktop sessions
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