As per the official Nutanix Unified Storage Administration (NUSA) course documentation, the Data Lens Footprint Widget provides comprehensive insights regarding folder-level data usage, permissions tracking, and user/group access details. Specifically, it offers metrics such as:
Total number of folders being tracked, including security and access control data
Size of the folders monitored
Total unique users and groups with access to the folders
This aligns with the requirements listed by the Security team in the question, namely:
The Data Lens Footprint Widget was specifically highlighted in the NUSA course module“Monitoring and Analyzing Data with Data Lens”, under the section“Using Data Lens for Security and Compliance”, which explicitly states:
“The Footprint Widget offers a consolidated view of folder usage, access control metadata, and group/user-level data. This includes unique user and group counts, as well as overall folder count and size, making it ideal for security teams needing access-level information and usage metrics.”
Therefore, based on this authoritative reference, the correct product and dashboard that would provide all the requested data to the Security team is theData Lens Footprint Widget.
[Reference:, Nutanix Unified Storage Administration (NUSA) course – Module: Monitoring and Analyzing Data with Data Lens – Section: Using Data Lens for Security and Compliance., Nutanix Unified Storage (NCP-US) Study Guide – Topic: Data Lens Dashboards and Metrics., ]
