The Monitoring Dashboard provides a set of visual tools you can use to directly manipulate objects to display diagnostic information about WebLogic Server instances. You can display diagnostic data about any of the server instances in a WebLogic domain, and about applications running on those servers, in a series of views. A view is a collection of one or more charts that display captured monitoring and diagnostic data. Views are displayed in the main display panel of the Monitoring Dashboard. Only one view is displayed at a time.

There are two general types of views that can be displayed, created, or modified in the Monitoring Dashboard:

• Built-in views — a set of predefined views of available run-time metrics for all running WebLogic Server instances in the domain. Built-in views surface some of the more critical run-time WebLogic Server performance metrics and serve as examples of the Monitoring Dashboard's view and graphing capabilities. Built-in views are available for every user logged into the Administration Console and using the Monitoring Dashboard. You cannot rename, delete, modify, or save a built-in view. For more information, see Built-In Views.
• Custom views — any view created by a user. Custom views are available only to the user who creates them. Custom views are automatically persisted and can be accessed again in subsequent Monitoring Dashboard sessions. You can also create a custom view by copying (cloning) a built-in view, and then modify, rename, or delete it as with other custom views.

The main steps for displaying and working with views in the Monitoring Dashboard are: