Configuring Metric Cards

The Metric Cards page has a sample layout for displaying different security metrics.

Card anatomy

Each metric card is broken into two primary sections: details (orange box) and chart (blue box).

The details section displays the metric id, metric name, current value, target value, change in current value from the prior measurement, and an indicator if the current value is on or off target. The color and arrow direction will be determined based on how you have the direction configured in the Excel Template.

The chart section displays the percent of target achieved from the last six measurements. Note that this chart does not display the actual measurement value. This is because multiple types of metrics with different y-axis are displayed on a single page. Plotting the actual values makes comparison difficult and can be difficult to read.

Configuring Metric Cards

You will need to select the metric you want to display on each card. Select the metric for both the details and chart sections by selecting the section and navigating to Filter Pane > "Filters on this visual" > "Metric ID" > Select metric. Ensure you are only selecting one metric, and that both the details and chart sections have the same metric selected.

Adding More Data Points

By default, the chart displays the most recent 6 measurements for the metric. You can configure this on a per-card basis by going to "filters" > "measurement date" and changing the "Top N" to the number of data points you want to display.

Resizing cards

Each card displays information for a single metric. The page has space for 8 metric cards. While you can resize the cards, it's recommended to use this layout for two primary reasons:

1. Size of cards often denotes importance. If you have some cards larger than others, they should either be more important, or the smaller cards should be breakdowns of the larger metric.

2. Smaller cards than the template size struggle to include enough information. For viewing more metrics on a single page, it's recommended to use the Metrics Matrix™.

Creating more pages

While there is only one Metric Cards page in the template, you will most likely want to create cards for more than eight metrics. In order to create more Metric Card pages, right click on the page tab at the bottom of the screen, click "duplicate". You can then rename the page. Note that the page will now appear in the top navigation.

Change Page Title and Subtitle

If you would like to replace the page title and subtitle text, click on the text box and in the format pane, select "General" > "Title" > "Text" and "General" > "Subtitle" > "Text".