--- title: "Adding Metric Cards to Dashboards | ThreatConnect" slug: "adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards" description: "This article describes how to add Metric cards to custom dashboards." tags: ["Analytical Tools", "Viewing Data"] updated: 2025-06-26T15:12:05Z published: 2025-06-26T15:12:05Z canonical: "knowledge.threatconnect.com/adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Adding Metric Cards to Dashboards ## Overview Dashboards in ThreatConnect® display their content via a series of cards. When configuring a dashboard card, you can choose the card’s format, color scheme, and chart type to ensure the card displays data clearly and logically. There are three types of cards you can add to a dashboard: **Widget**, **Metric**, and **Query**. Metric cards can be configured to display the following types of metrics: - **System Metrics**are predefined by ThreatConnect and divided into three categories: - **Activities** provides a graphical representation of changes in activity for selected data types (e.g., Observations, False Positives, Tags, Attributes, Average Indicator Confidence Rating) within the selected owners over a period of time. - **Indicators** provides a graphical representation of the addition of selected Indicator types within the selected owners over a period of time. - **Intelligence**provides a graphical representation of the addition of selected Group types within the selected owners over a period of time. - **User Metrics** are [custom metrics](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/custom-metrics) created by Organization Administrators. - [**Cases Metrics**](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/cases-metrics)****provide a graphical representation of nine metrics for [Workflow Cases](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/workflow-cases) in your Organization: **Active Cases**, **Analyst Workload**, **False Positives**, **Mean Time to Detection (MTTD), MTTD Average**, **Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), MTTR Average**, **Top 10 Case Closing Analyst**, and **Unassigned Cases**. - **Playbooks Metrics** provide a graphical representation of three metrics calculated by the [Playbooks Return on Investment](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/playbooks-return-on-investment) feature for all selected Playbooks: **Playbook Execution Count**, **Playbook Financial Savings**, and **Playbook Hours Saved**. ## Before You Start ### User Roles - To add Metric cards to custom dashboards you created or another user in your Organization shared, your user account can have any [Organization role](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/organization-roles). - To add Metric cards to System-level dashboards that are not built-in dashboards, your user account must have a [System role](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/threatconnect-system-roles-and-permissions) of Administrator. ### Prerequisites - To add Metric cards to custom dashboards, turn on custom dashboards for your Organization on the **Account Settings**screen (must be an Accounts Administrator, Operations Administrator, or System Administrator to perform this action). ## Adding a Metric Card The following steps demonstrate how to add a specific Metric card (**Indicators**) to a dashboard. However, you can follow a similar process when adding other types of Metric cards to a dashboard. 1. Hover over **Dashboard**on the top navigation bar and select an existing dashboard to open or [create a custom dashboard](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/creating-dashboards). 2. Click **Add![Plus icon_Gray](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Plus%20icon_Gray.png)**at the upper-right corner of the dashboard, or click **Add Your First Card**in the middle of the dashboard if no cards have been added to it. 3. On the **Details**step of the **Add New Card**drawer (Figure 1), enter a title for the card, and then select **Indicators**from the **Metric**section. If you do not enter a title for the card before selecting**Indicators**, then the card’s title will be **Indicators**. NoteTo view a complete list of Widget cards, scroll down the **Metric******section.![Figure 1_Adding Metric Cards to Dashboards_7.6.2](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%201_Adding%20Metric%20Cards%20to%20Dashboards_7.7.1.png) 4. After you select **Indicators**on the **Details**step, you will proceed to the **Query**step automatically (Figure 2). On this step, configure the data to display on the **Indicators**card as follows: NoteAs you configure options on the **Query**step, the preview of the dashboard card will update automatically based on the configuration.![Figure 2_Adding Metric Cards to Dashboards_7.6.2](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%202_Adding%20Metric%20Cards%20to%20Dashboards_7.7.1.png) - **Owners**: Select one or more [owners](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/ownership-in-threatconnect) to display data from on the card. To select the same owners that are selected in the [**My Intel Sources**selector](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/my-intel-sources), turn on the **Inherit owner selections from My Intel Sources** toggle. To select a single owner, hover over the owner’s name and click![View Only Eye icon](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/View%20Only%20Eye%20icon.png)**only**. NoteIf you deselect an owner on the **Query**step, the **Inherit owner selections from My Intel Sources** toggle will turn off automatically.NoteIf you are a [Super User](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/threatconnect-super-user-guide), a **My Orgs** section will be displayed in place of the **View <*Organization name*>** toggle that you can use to select the Organizations to display data from on the card. - **Sum Across Owners**: Multiple metric types must be summed across all selected owners. If you select only one Indicator type in the **Types** menu, or a single date in the **Date Range** menu, you can turn off the **Sum Across Owners**toggle. Otherwise, you must turn on the **Sum Across Owners**toggle. - **Types**: Select one or more Indicator types to display on the card. - **Date Range**: Select a date or data range to display data from on the card. - **Date Order**: For charts that display dates, select whether to sort the dates in ascending or descending order. - **Short Date Format**: For charts that display dates, turn on this toggle to display the dates in short date format. - **Chart Type**: Select the type of chart to display. 5. Click **NEXT**at the top right of the drawer to proceed to the **Options**step. 6. On the **Options** step (Figure 3), you can configure the appearance of the **Indicators**card. The options available on this step depend on the type of chart you selected on the **Query**step. In this example (**Sparkline**), you can configure the card’s color scheme, scheme type, width, and height. You can also specify whether to display tooltips when users hover over a chart element on the card in a dashboard. NoteAs you configure options on the **Options**step, the preview of the dashboard card will update automatically based on the configuration.![Figure 3_Adding Metric Cards to Dashboards_7.6.2](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%203_Adding%20Metric%20Cards%20to%20Dashboards_7.7.1.png) 7. Click **SAVE**at the top right of the drawer to add the **Indicators**card to the dashboard. --- *ThreatConnect® is a registered trademark of ThreatConnect, Inc.* 20044-11 v.01.B