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title: "Morning Coffee Widget"
description: "This widget allows you to track the health state and overall resource utilization for the selected infrastructure objects. This section provides step-by-step instructions that will help you understand how to use the Morning Coffee widget."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/mp/hyperv_guide/morning_coffee_widget.html"
breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for Microsoft Hyper-V User Guide > Appendices > Appendix D. Creating Veeam Dashboard Widgets > Morning Coffee Widget"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# Morning Coffee Widget

This widget allows you to track the health state and overall resource utilization for the selected infrastructure objects.

## Sample Usage

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

*You have a very large infrastructure with lots of clusters, which makes it difficult to monitor data in the default Morning Coffee Dashboard. You need to narrow the monitoring scope and create a separate Morning Coffee widget for a specific cluster.*

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

1. At the **Template** step, choose *Veeam > Veeam Infrastructure Summary Widget*.
2. At the **General Properties** step, specify widget display name and description.
3. At the **Management Pack** step, choose *Hyper-V*.
4. At the **Scope** step, click **Add** to choose what infrastructure objects will be included in the widget scope.

   ::: note

   Keep in mind that the Veeam MP for Hyper-V comes with separate **Topology – Compute** and **Topology – Storage** topologies which have different root objects. If you add a compute topology container, the Morning Coffee Dashboard will not automatically add storage objects from that container and will not display storage information. For this reason, if you need to add a compute topology object, you will also need to add a corresponding storage topology object.

   :::

   The **Add Groups or Objects** window will open. To follow this example:

   1. Select the *Show all objects and groups* option.
   2. In the search field, enter the name of the required cluster.
   3. From the list of available items, select the *Hyper-V Cluster (Veeam MP)* object along with the corresponding *Hyper-V Cluster Disk Container (Veeam MP)* object, and click **Add**.
   4. Click **OK**.

5. At the **Summary** step, review configuration information and click **Create**.
6. Click **Close**.

As a result, the widget will show the state of SCVMMs (if present), physical hosts, VMs, storage and resource utilization for the cluster.

[![Morning Coffee Widget](images/widgets_morning_coffee.png "Morning Coffee Widget")](images/widgets_morning_coffee.png){.toggle scale=57}