Dashboards

Dashboards lives in the Analyze area of the dashboard, under Visualize.

At a glance#

What it does#

Dashboards is a tile builder. You compose named dashboards from tiles over the analytics you already have:

• Metric — the count of one event.

• Breakdown — one event split by one of its properties.

• Groups — account-level activity.

• Active users — DAU / WAU / MAU.

• Funnel conversion — conversion through a defined funnel.

Named dashboards persist on the server, so they are shared rather than living in your browser.

When to use it#

For the questions you ask repeatedly. Explore is for a question you have once; a dashboard is for the four numbers you check every Monday, assembled so nobody has to rebuild them.

Also as the shared artifact in a team. A dashboard everyone looks at is a much better foundation for a discussion than five people each running their own query and getting slightly different answers.

Workflow#

1. 1

   Build the smallest dashboard that answers one question

   A dashboard with twenty tiles gets scanned and not read. One with four gets used.

2. 2

   Put the tile you check first at the top

   Tile order is the only priority signal the reader gets.

3. 3

   Name it for the question, not the team

   "Onboarding funnel health" ages better than "Growth team dashboard".

4. 4

   Set the time range deliberately

   A dashboard's range applies to what it shows. Too short and every tile is noise; too long and a regression is invisible.

Permissions and prerequisites#

Requires the underlying events to exist. A tile referencing an event that is not arriving renders empty rather than erroring.

Limits and edge cases#

• Tiles are built from the existing analytics endpoints, so a tile can only show what those can compute. There is no free-form query.

• A breakdown tile inherits the cardinality problem. Splitting by a near-unique property makes the tile unreadable.

• Dashboards persist server-side and are not personal. Deleting one removes it for everyone.

• A renamed event silently empties its tile. Nothing warns you, because an event that is not arriving is indistinguishable from one with no occurrences.

Troubleshooting#

A tile went blank. Check the event still arrives, in Events. A rename is the usual cause.

Numbers differ from another page. Compare time ranges before anything else.

Where the data comes from#

Served by

• Dashboard

• Saved views

Related#

• Explore

• Reports

• Heatmaps

• Analyze overview