# How to Create Custom Widgets in Datadog

By default, IsDown creates a dashboard with some useful widgets that are more focused on real-time data and trying to understand what's wrong with your vendors quickly.

On this page, we'll list other widgets that should be available with the current data set sent from IsDown to Datadog.

### Services with the most outages

<figure><img src="/files/zdqKnLZcsy2HrTy6cBap" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<details>

<summary>How to add the widget?</summary>

Click the "Add Widgets" button, choose the Treemap widget, then click JSON in the "Graph your data" and paste the following JSON code.

{% code overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}

```json
{
    "type": "treemap",
    "requests": [
        {
            "response_format": "scalar",
            "queries": [
                {
                    "data_source": "events",
                    "name": "query1",
                    "indexes": [
                        "*"
                    ],
                    "compute": {
                        "aggregation": "cardinality",
                        "metric": "@evt.id"
                    },
                    "group_by": [
                        {
                            "facet": "@aggregation_key",
                            "limit": 100,
                            "sort": {
                                "order": "desc",
                                "aggregation": "cardinality",
                                "metric": "@evt.id"
                            }
                        }
                    ],
                    "search": {
                        "query": "source:isdown status:(warn OR error)"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "formulas": [
                {
                    "formula": "query1"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```

{% endcode %}

</details>

### Number of outages by time and service

<figure><img src="/files/TG5GuTO35CjERGFNPy81" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<details>

<summary>How to add the widget?</summary>

Click the "Add Widgets" button, choose the Timeseries widget, then click JSON in the "Graph your data" and paste the following JSON code.

```json
{
    "type": "timeseries",
    "requests": [
        {
            "style": {
                "palette": "semantic",
                "type": "solid",
                "width": "normal"
            },
            "type": "bars",
            "formulas": [
                {
                    "formula": "query1"
                }
            ],
            "queries": [
                {
                    "data_source": "events",
                    "name": "query1",
                    "indexes": [
                        "*"
                    ],
                    "compute": {
                        "aggregation": "cardinality",
                        "metric": "@evt.id",
                        "interval": 86400000
                    },
                    "group_by": [
                        {
                            "facet": "@aggregation_key",
                            "limit": 10,
                            "sort": {
                                "order": "desc",
                                "aggregation": "cardinality",
                                "metric": "@evt.id"
                            }
                        }
                    ],
                    "search": {
                        "query": "source:isdown status:(warn OR error)"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "response_format": "timeseries"
        }
    ]
}
```

</details>

### Dashboard with checks

<figure><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-app-listings/isdown-isdown/media/health_dashboard_cloud_providers.jpg" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<details>

<summary>How to add the widget?</summary>

To add all these checks, you will need to do it one by one.&#x20;

1. Go to the Dashboard you will want to add these widgets.
2. Click "Add Widget"
3. Search for "Check"

   <figure><img src="/files/37C13IupXQnzAEaxvJhJ" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
4. Fill in the fields according to the picture. In Reported By choose the service (host) that you want to track.

   <figure><img src="/files/pN7xJrJ5QzHZCjmyNr7A" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
5. Duplicate and replace this widget for how many services you want it for.

</details>

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**Related Articles**

* [**How to Set Up Datadog Integration**](https://help.isdown.app/integrations/setup-datadog)
* [**How to Create Dashboards in Datadog**](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/)
* [**Datadog Widget Documentation**](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/widgets/)


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