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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 necessary performance metric and select Personalize. Clear the Automatic (the maximum value will be used for Red) check box."
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dateModified: "2026-09-08"
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# 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 necessary performance metric 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**.

[![Personalizing Heatmap Widget](images/heatmap_widget_settings.png "Personalizing Heatmap Widget")](images/heatmap_widget_settings.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*.

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

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

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