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# Dashboards and reports

Dashboards consist of visualized data powered by fully customizable widgets, which enable you to analyze data from inside or outside Cortex XDR, in different formats such as graphs, pie charts, or text. Cortex XDR displays the predefined dashboards when you log in. You can also create custom dashboards that are based on the predefined dashboards, or built to your specifications, and you can save any of your dashboards as reports.

From the **Dashboard & Reports** menu, you can view and manage your dashboards and reports from the dashboard and incidents table, and view alert exclusions.

* **Dashboard:** Provides dashboards that you can use to view high-level statistics about your agents and incidents.
* **Reports:** View all the reports that Cortex XDR administrators have run.
* **Customize:** Create and manage a new dashboard and reports.
  * **Dashboards Manager:** Add new dashboards with customized widgets to surface the statistics that matter to you most.
  * **Reports Templates:** Build reports using pre-defined templates, or customize a report. Reports can be generated on-demand scheduled.
  * **Widget Library:** Search, view, edit, and create widgets based on predefined widgets and user-created custom widgets.


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