I understand this question is from April, but I hope you are still able to take suggestions. I believe the OPS Center Dashboard could be really useful, however, as it is right now, I don’t use it because the widgets are so limited and hard to create/configure.
I'd like to use the Dashboard as an accurate and quick status location for my Director. I'd like it to become her 'one-stop-shop' that accurately displays 30-Day stats, 1-Week Stats, and 24-Hour stats using pre-configured Widgets based on Industry Best Practices or Regulatory Compliance Standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc.) Additionally, the ability to create Widgets based on Rules, both pre-configured rules and ones that are individually configured (using an action response within a rule).
Some of the metrics I'd like to see include:
1) Failed logon attempts (separate Server, SQL, Service & Application widgets)
2) Blocked emails (via Barracuda Gateway) due to SPF and/or DMARC Failure (and other email filtering options)
3) Recently added and disconnected Non-Agent Nodes
4) Recently added and disconnected Agent Nodes
5) SQL Injection attacks, recon, and other attack attempts based on SEM's Threat Feed