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title: "Heatmap Widget"
description: "This widget allows you to compare performance metric or property values for several objects. Objects in the heatmap are represented with tiles, the size and color of the tiles reflects the value of performance counters."
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breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for Microsoft Hyper-V User Guide > Appendices > Appendix D. Creating Veeam Dashboard Widgets > Heatmap Widget"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# Heatmap Widget

This widget allows you to compare performance metric or property values for several objects. Objects in the heatmap are represented with tiles, the size and color of the tiles reflects the value of performance counters.

## Sample Usage

This section provides step-by-step instructions that will help you understand how to use the Heatmap widget. Consider the following example:

 *You need to analyze the amount of available and free space for host local volumes and make sure that there is at least 10% of free space left on the volumes.*

In a dashboard, click to add a new widget and follow the next steps:

1. At the **Template** step, choose *Veeam > Veeam Heatmap Widget*.
2. At the **General Properties** step, specify widget display name and description.
3. At the **Scope** step, choose what infrastructure objects will be included in the widget scope:

   - In the **Select a scope to contain all objects used in the heatmap** box, add the *Veeam Hyper-V Clusters* *Group*.
   - In the **Select a class to Group the tiles on the heatmap** field, choose *Hyper-V Host Disks Container*.
   - In the **Select a class to be used for each Tile on the heatmap** field, choose *Hyper-V Host Local Volume*.

   ::: note

   The Heatmap widget has a known limitation for the list of groups and objects selected as a scope.

   If you add several groups and objects in the widget scope, make sure they include containers and tile object classes. Otherwise, the widget may start working incorrectly.

   :::

4. At the **Set tile size** step, choose a counter that will define the size of tiles on the heatmap. 

   To follow this example, choose *Total Storage Capacity GB*.

5. At the **Set tile color** step, specify color settings for the heatmap:

   - In the **Select counter or property to control Tile color** field, select *%* *Free Space*.
   - In the **Select method to control color range** section, clear the **Automatic (the maximum value will be used for Red)** check box. 
   - In the **Minimum** field, specify *100*, in the **Maximum** field, specify *10*.

6. At the **Time Interval** step, leave the default interval settings. 
7. Click **Create**.

As a result, the widget will show host local volumes as tiles for each host:

- The tile size will represent the total amount of volume space.
- The tile color will represent the amount of free space left on the volume; volumes that have less than 10% free space left will be colored red.

[![Heatmap Local Storage](images/widgets_heatmap_storage.png "Heatmap Local Storage")](images/widgets_heatmap_storage.png){.toggle scale=57}

Veeam MP for Hyper-V also includes default dashboards with the preconfigured Heatmap widgets. For details, see [Heatmap Dashboards](heatmap_dashboards.md).