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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 VMware User Guides > Appendices > Creating Veeam Dashboard Widgets > Heatmap Widget"
dateModified: "2026-09-08"
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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 free space for datastores and make sure that there is at least 10% of free space left.*

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 *VMware Datacenter - Storage Group*.
   - In the **Select a class to Group the tiles on the heatmap** field, choose *VMware Datacenter - Storage*.
   - In the **Select a class to be used for each Tile on the heatmap** field, choose *VMware Datastore*.

   ::: 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 *Disk Size 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 *usedPct*.
   - 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, type *50*, in the **Maximum** field, type *90*.

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

As a result, the widget will show datastores as tiles grouped by datacenter:

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

[![Heatmap Widget](images/creating_heatmap_widget.png "Heatmap Widget")](images/creating_heatmap_widget.png){.toggle scale=60}

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