Boards

Boards (Dashboards) in Traceable are visualization tools that provide insights into the APIs, their security posture, and AI assets in your application ecosystem. Traceable consolidates this complex data and presents it as widgets containing graphs, charts, and tables. Dashboards act as a central hub for analyzing key metrics, such as issue trends, API types, AI models, MCP servers, threat types, and threat activities.

What will you learn in this topic?

By the end of this topic, you will be able to understand:

• The concept of boards and how they help.

• The types of boards available in Traceable.

• The supported widgets in a board.

• The way to customize data visibility in a board.

• The Home and AI Security dashboards, their widgets, and the actions you can perform on them.

• The Custom dashboard, including its available actions, setup steps for reporting, and the information it displays.

How Boards help

Boards simplify analytics monitoring in your API ecosystem by presenting critical information in an organized, visual format. They enable you to monitor API behaviors, analyze trends, and make informed decisions according to your requirements.

Types of Boards

Traceable offers the following dashboards:

• A pre-configured Home dashboard with widgets displaying analytics from categories, such as Catalog and Protection. You can customize this dashboard and add or edit widgets according to your requirements.

• AI Security Dashboard with widgets displaying analytics into AI assets, such as APIs, models, and MCP servers. You can customize this dashboard to add or edit widgets according to your requirements.

• Custom Dashboards, allowing you to tailor widget configurations according to your business needs. This ensures flexibility while providing comprehensive reports.

Supported widgets in a Board

While the dashboards are shown in View Mode by default, you can add or customize widgets according to your requirements using Edit Mode. Traceable supports the following widgets in a dashboard:

• Table

• Time Series

• Column

• Bar

• Donut

• Univariate

Each widget consists of a set of attributes that you can use to view the data according to your requirements. For more information on these attributes and the widgets, see Widgets. Also, apart from adding widgets, you can carry out multiple actions in a dashboard. For more information, see the sections below.

Customizing data visibility on a Board

By default, the data in the dashboards is shown for the Last 1 day across All Environments. You can modify these settings to display the analytics according to your requirements. For example, let us say you wish to view the analytics for the Sandbox environment for the last month. Then, from the top right corner of the Dashboard, you can select Sandbox from the Environments drop-down and Custom from the Duration drop-down. Further, you can specify the date and time range for Traceable to show the analytics. The data in the widgets is changed to show the analytics according to your selected settings.

Note

The applicability of date and time range on widgets may vary depending on their type.

Understanding the Home dashboard

This is Traceable’s out-of-the-box dashboard that presents insights on common use cases, ensuring immediate functionality.

Widgets on the Home dashboard

By default, the following widgets are shown on the Home dashboard:

Note

The date and time range filters from the above list are applicable only to the Top Threat Types and Threat Activities widgets.

Understanding the AI Security Dashboard

This is Traceable’s out-of-the-box dashboard, which presents insights on AI assets such as models, APIs, and MCP servers, ensuring immediate functionality. The dashboard consolidates analytics from the Posture Management, Runtime Protection, and Security Testing modules so that you can monitor the security posture and threat activity.

Widgets on the AI Security dashboard

By default, the following widgets are displayed on the AI Security dashboard:

Actions on the Home and AI Security Dashboard

While the above widgets are shown in the Home and AI Security dashboard by default, you can customize the dashboard to carry out the following actions:

Apart from the above actions, Traceable also allows you to do the following:

• Modify the Name and Description of Widgets

• Modify the Placement and Size of Widgets

• Modify the Dashboard’s Name and Description

• Reset the Dashboard to the Default View

For the steps to perform the above actions, see Actions.

As mentioned above, Traceable also allows you to create a custom dashboard and define widgets in it to ensure flexibility. For more information, see the section below.

Understanding the Custom Dashboard

Custom dashboard provides the flexibility to define unique widgets and configurations tailored to your business requirements. You can create a custom dashboard on this page and define widgets according to your business requirements. To create a new dashboard, complete the following steps:

1. In the page’s top right corner, click Create New Dashboard.

2. In the Create New Dashboard pop-up window, specify the dashboard’s Name and Description according to your requirements.

3. In the top right corner of the dashboard page that appears, click + Add Widget.

4. Select the widget type and configurations according to your requirements. For more information, see Widgets.

The following demo shows how to perform the above steps.

Actions on the Custom Dashboard

Apart from adding widgets, similar to the Home dashboard, you can also carry out the following actions in the dashboard:

• Clone Widgets

• Modify Widgets

• Remove Widgets

• Modify the Name and Description of Widgets

• Modify the Placement and Size of Widgets

• Modify the Dashboard’s Name and Description

• Delete the Dashboard

For more information on the steps to do this, see Actions.

Reporting

Apart from the above actions, you can also create a schedule to receive reports for custom dashboards. This automates the delivery of important insights and analytics at regular intervals according to your requirements. This scheduling ensures that you receive updated information in your mailbox without having to manually view the dashboard.

To schedule a report, navigate to Boards → Custom, click the Ellipse () icon corresponding to the board you wish to create a schedule for, and complete the following steps:

1. Click Schedule Report.

2. In the Schedule Dashboard Report pop-up window, do the following:

   • Specify a Name for the report, for example, Daily Report for Security Issues Data.

   • Select the Environment(s) for which you wish to receive the data in the report. Traceable updates the data in the report according to the environment you select.

   • Select the Frequency and Time (UTC) at which you wish to receive the report. You can also enable or disable the scheduling using the toggle.

   • Specify the Email(s) where you wish to receive the report.

   • Click Save.

Traceable sends the report from the no-reply@traceable.ai email address to your configured email address according to the schedule you defined. You can also view the report by clicking the Report () icon corresponding to the dashboard for which you created the report. For more information, see Reports.

Custom Dashboard View

The Custom Dashboard page lists all dashboards in your account, including the Home Dashboard.

The following information is shown for each dashboard:

You can view a dashboard by clicking on the corresponding row. Apart from viewing a dashboard, you can click the Ellipse () icon corresponding to a row and perform the following actions:

• Edit a dashboard

• Clone a dashboard

• Delete a dashboard

• View Reports associated with the dashboard

• Schedule Report for the dashboard