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title: "Personalizing Heatmap Widgets"
description: "To change the default settings for a Heatmap widget: Open a Heatmap Dashboard. Click the gear icon to the right of the widget name and select Personalize. Clear the Automatic (the maximum value will be used for Red) check box."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/mp/hyperv_guide/heatmap_widget_customization.html"
breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for Microsoft Hyper-V User Guide > Monitoring with Veeam MP for Hyper-V > Personalizing Veeam Dashboard Widgets > Personalizing Heatmap Widgets"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
---

# Personalizing Heatmap Widgets

To change the default settings for a Heatmap widget:

1. Open a Heatmap Dashboard.
2. Click the gear icon to the right of the widget name and select **Personalize**.
3. Clear the **Automatic (the maximum value will be used for Red)** check box.
4. Specify values for the **Minimum** and **Maximum** thresholds.
5. Select the **Display the color range bar and value range below the widget** check box to show a legend bar with threshold below the heatmap.
6. Click **Finish**.

[![Customizing Heatmap Widget](images/change_heatmap_widget.png "Customizing Heatmap Widget")](images/change_heatmap_widget.png){.toggle scale=65}

As a result, the object tiles on the heatmap will be highlighted as follows:

- If the **Minimum** threshold is breached, an object on the heatmap will be highlighted with *Yellow*.
- If the **Maximum** threshold is breached, an object on the heatmap will be highlighted with *Red*.
- If none of the thresholds is breached, an object on the heatmap will be highlighted with *Green*.
- If no metric value is available, an object on the heatmap will be highlighted with *Gray*.

For example, the screenshot below shows the Heatmap - Host Compute dashboard with thresholds set for the *Host CPU* and *Host Memory* metrics.

[![Customizing Heatmap Widget](images/change_heatmap_widget_result.png "Customizing Heatmap Widget")](images/change_heatmap_widget_result.png){.toggle scale=55}

To return back to the default widget settings, choose to personalize the widget and click **Revert**.