Adding Suggested Insights

The list of suggested insights is based on the data included in your visuals. You can see different suggestions depending on the fields that you add to your visuals and the type of the visuals.
To add a suggested insight to an analysis:
  1. Click Dashboards tab, the Dashboards tab.
  2. Click Dashboard Designer, in the bottom-left corner.
  3. On the Analyses dialog, click New analysis or click Options button, the Options button, next to an existing analysis and select Edit.
  4. On the analysis page, click Insights button, the Insights button, on the toolbar.
    The Suggested Insights panel is displayed and you can see all the available suggested insights.
  5. To customize a suggested insight, select the insight, click Options button, the Options button, and select one of the available options:
    • Aggregate: Lets you change the time series aggregation to year, quarter, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, or millisecond.
    • Analyze contributions: Lets you see the top contributors to a data metric in a specified time frame.
    • Show all anomalies: Lets you browse anomalies in the analyzed time frame.
    • Edit forecast: Lets you set the forecast length, prediction interval, and seasonality.
    • Focus only on or Exclude: Lets you zoom in or zoom out on dimensional data.
    • Show details: Displays more information about a recent anomaly (outlier).

    The available options depend on the type of insight.

  6. To add a suggested insight to the analysis, select the insight, and click Add insight button, the Add insight button.
  7. To customize the content of the insight, click Menu options button, the Menu options button, in the corner of the insight and select Customize narrative.
    In the Edit narrative dialog, you can edit the insight computation or add more computations, use parameters, and add functions. You can also configure the text formatting and alignment and add images or hyperlinks. For more information, see Customizing the Insight Narrative.
  8. To change the anomaly detection settings for insights that show anomalies, click Menu options button, the Menu options button, in the corner of the insight and select Configure anomaly.
    For more information, see Configuring Anomaly Detection.
Parent topic: Using Insights