SOAR Dashboards overview

This document describes the SOAR Dashboards page in Google Security Operations SOAR, how you can manage these dashboards, and provides an overview of specified data through the dashboard, including the various widgets. These widgets can show data for any specified SOC environment or case occurrence time. A dashboard can hold up to 12 widgets, which display data in formats, such as pie charts, bars, and tables. To display data related to your SOC status, you can add SOAR dashboard widgets .

Monitor activity with predefined dashboards

Google Security Operations provides the following predefined, customizable dashboards to help you monitor and report SOC activities:

• Playbooks dashboard : Overview of playbook performance, including overall status, distribution, alert handling, and runtime metrics.
• SOC Status : Overview of the SOC's current state, highlighting important metrics for cases, alerts, incidents, and analyst activities.

Customize dashboards by data

You can customize a dashboard's display data by grouping widgets based on criteria, such as:

• Analysts or playbooks associated with the case
• Products or involved entities
• Important or unimportant cases

You can filter the displayed data by applying built-in filters, such as tags, case status, case priority, case stage, and case close reasons.

Use-case: Add a new widget to a new dashboard

This section provides the steps for adding a new widget to a new dashboard. The widget provides a pie chart, (default format) showing the top five products that contribute to attacks across all environments in the last six months. This presentation is ordered by the number of attacks in descending order. No filters are applied in this example. No filters are applied in this scenario.

1. Go to Dashboards & Reports > SOAR Dashboards .
2. Click filter_alt Filter and set the time to Last 6 Months and the environment as All Environments .
3. Click keyboard_arrow_down View all dashboards and select add Create New Dashboard .
4. Enter Attacks as the new dashboard name and click Create .
5. In the new dashboard, click add Add .
6. In the Widget Settings dialog, enter Top 5 Attacks by Products as the title.
7. Select Widget Width .
9. In the data display, Pie Chart is set by default. Keep this setting.
10. Configure the Pie Chart fields as follows:
    • Number of : Alerts
    • Calculate field : Count
    • Group by : Product
    • Number of Results : 5
    • Order by : Descending
11. Click Save .

The new widget is added to the dashboard as Attacks .

The pie chart displays the top five products associated with attacks across all environments in the last six months.

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