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title: "Top Dashboards"
description: "Top dashboards show top virtual infrastructure objects for resource usage. There are several Top dashboards available in the root Veeam for VMware folder which have a global scope — for example, the Top Virtual Machines dashboard shows the top..."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/mp/vmware_guide/top_dashboards.html"
breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for VMware User Guides > Operations Guide > Monitoring with Veeam MP for VMware > Top Dashboards"
dateModified: "2026-09-08"
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# Top Dashboards

Top dashboards show top virtual infrastructure objects for resource usage. There are several Top dashboards available in the root **Veeam for VMware** folder which have a global scope — for example, the **Top Virtual Machines** dashboard shows the top virtual machines for resource consumption for the entire environment.

These dashboards can also be launched in-context when a parent (‘container’) object is selected. For example, if you select a vSphere host in any view (Alert, State, Topology and so on), the **Navigation** pane in the **Tasks** sidebar will show available **Top VMs** dashboards:

[![Top VMs Dashboards](images/top_vms_dashboard.png "Top VMs Dashboards")](images/top_vms_dashboard.png){.toggle scale=65}

Click the **Top VMs (Absolute Resource)** link to show the Top VMs for the key CPU, memory, disk and network traffic metrics for that host only.

::: note

If a metric value for an object (for example, for a VM) is not available, the metric tile will be highlighted with gray. This is useful for identifying switched-off VMs.

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[![Top VMs (Absolute Resource) Dashboard](images/top_vms_cpu.png "Top VMs (Absolute Resource) Dashboard")](images/top_vms_cpu.png){.toggle scale=65}

To speed up performance analysis and identify infrastructure objects with performance issues, Veeam Top Dashboards feature **Traffic Lights** — that is, warning and critical thresholds that are used to highlight objects in the widgets. For example, the screenshot above shows that three VMs are in yellow (warning) state for *CPU Usage MHz* and five VMs are in red (critical) state for *Memory Consumed MB*.

::: note

Performance data in Top dashboards is averaged over the last 4 hours.

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The default configuration of the traffic light widgets can be customized. For details on changing widget settings, see section [Personalizing Veeam Dashboard Widgets](personalizing_dashboard_widgets.md).

## In This Section

- [Top Datastore Clusters](top_datastore_clusters.md)
- [Top Datastores (Percentage Resources/Absolute Resources/VMs Deployed)](top_datastores.md)
- [Top Clusters (Percentage Resources/Absolute Resources/VM Activity)](top_clusters.md)
- [Top Hosts (Percentage Resources/Absolute Resources/VM Activity)](top_hosts.md)
- [Top VMs (Percentage Resources/Absolute Resources)](top_vms.md)