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# Monitor Table Space Usage with Carbon
In this tutorial, we will walk-through how to enable an insight widget on Dashboard to get an at-a-glance view about the space usage for all tables in a database. After following through this tutorial, you will learn learn how to:

> [!div class="checklist"]
> * Quickly turn on an insight widget using a built-in insight widget sample.
> * View the details of table space usage.
> * Filter data and view label detail on an insight chart

## Prerequisites
* Follow [Get Started with Carbon](./get-started-sql-server.md) to a SQL Server 2017 instance and TutorialDB database.

## Turn on a management insight on Carbon's database Manage dashboard
Carbon has a built-in sample widget to monitor the space used by tables in a database.

1. Open User Settings by pressing 'F1' to open Command Palette, type in 'settings' in the command search input box and select 'Preferences: Open User Settings' command.

   ![Open user settings command](./media/tutorial-sql-server/open-user-settings.png)

2. Type 'dashboard' in Settings Search input box to search "dashboard.database.widgets" in Settings.

   ![Search settings](./media/tutorial-sql-server/search-settings.png)

3. Click 'Copy to Settings' to copy "dashboard.database.widgets" settings to customize.

4. Using Carbon's insight settings IntelliSense, configure 'name' for the widget title, 'gridItemConfig' for the widget size, and 'widget' by selecting 'table-space-database-insight' from the drop down list as shown in the screenshot below:

   ![Insight settings](./media/tutorial-sql-server/insight-table-space.png)

5. Press 'CTRL + S' to save the user's settings file.

6. Open Database dashboard by navigate to 'TutorialDB' in Servers viewlet, and click 'Manage' in the context menu.

   ![Open dashboard](./media/tutorial-sql-server/insight-open-dashboard.png)

7. View 'Space used by tables' as shown in the screen shot below: 

   ![Widget](./media/tutorial-sql-server/insight-table-space-result.png)


## Working with Inishgt chart

Carbon's insight chart provides filtering and mouse-hover detail view functionality. To try out follow the steps below:

1. Click and toggle 'row_count' legend on the chart. Carbon shows and hides data seriese as user toggle on or off a legend.
    
2. Hover the mouse pointer over a chart. Carbon shows more information about the data series label and its value as shown on the screenshot.

   ![chart toggle and legend](./media/tutorial-sql-server/insight-table-space-toggle.png)

## Next Steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
> [!div class="checklist"]
> * Quickly turn on an insight widget using a built-in insight widget sample.
> * View the details of table space usage.
> * Filter data and view label detail on an insight chart

Next, learn how to use X, try this tutorial: 
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> [What article is next in sequence](tutorial-monitoring-sql-server.md)