Dashboard Time Period

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Dashboard Time Period

You can set the dashboard time period to focus on current activity or longer term trends. You can choose a predefined period (such as 'Today' or 'Last Week'), or you can specify a custom period. Note that periods such as:

This Week, This Month or This Year mean a period beginning from the start of the current week, month or year and ending today.
Last Week, Last Month or Last Year mean the week ending on the previous Saturday or the last calendar month or year. They do not mean, for example, the last 7, 31 or 365 days.

For trend charts (such as CA DataMinder Alert Trend By Policy), the x-axis time periods are dependent on the overall dashboard time period. For example, if the dashboard time period is set to Last Year, the x-axis aggregates incidents into monthly counts:

Dashboard time period	X-axis periods for dashboard trend chart
Year or Quarter	Months
Month or Week	Days
Day	Hours

The Blocked Incidents, Disregarded Warnings and Accepted Warnings metrics are all based on the dashboard time period. For example, if the time period is set to this month, the Blocked Incidents metric counts the number of incidents that were blocked since the start of the current month.