Dashboards
A dashboard answers one question for one team, service or customer: is everything OK, and if not, where?
Uptime, incidents, RUM and backend telemetry live in the same account, so one board can hold a monitor grid, p95 latency by region with incident overlays, LCP p75 and a stream of error logs.
Requires a paid plan. See plan limits.
What a dashboard is
Section titled “What a dashboard is”A dashboard is a 12-column grid of widgets, plus a default time range, a refresh setting and a set of variables. All of it is stored as one JSON document that you can export and import.
Dashboards belong to the account, not to a person, and every member can view every one. Use names, tags and the description to show who owns a board.
Finding dashboards
Section titled “Finding dashboards”The dashboards list searches by name and tags. Star a board to add it to your favorites, or pick Mine to show only the dashboards you created. Sort by recently viewed, last updated or name. A deleted dashboard waits in Recently deleted for 30 days, and you can restore it from there.
Data sources
Section titled “Data sources”Each query reads from one of six sources.
| Source | Reads | Example measures |
|---|---|---|
monitors | HTTP and browser checks, and downtime including cron | Uptime, response time, check phases, failed checks, downtime |
incidents | Incidents | Incidents opened, open incidents, MTTR, MTTA |
rum | Real user monitoring | Sessions, page views, errors, Web Vitals, rage clicks |
logs | Log events | Log count by level, source, host or environment |
metrics | Any metric you send | The metric’s value, by tag |
traces | Distributed traces | Requests, errors, error rate, latency |
Every source lists its measures, fields and aggregations on the data sources page.
Widgets
Section titled “Widgets”There are fifteen widget types in four groups.
| Group | Widgets |
|---|---|
| Charts | Time series, Query value, Top list, Table, Pie |
| Monitoring | Monitor grid, Monitor status, Uptime bars, Incidents, Certificate and domain expiry |
| Logs, traces and RUM | Log stream, Trace list, Web Vitals |
| Text and layout | Note, Section |
The five chart widgets are built from lettered queries and formulas such as a / b * 100. The rest are built for one job each and take filters. See widgets and queries, formulas and variables.
Templates
Section titled “Templates”Seven built-in templates give you a working board. Creating one makes an ordinary dashboard that you can edit freely.
Variables
Section titled “Variables”A variable such as $region or $service is a dropdown in the variables bar. It is bound to a field of a source, and widgets use it in their filters. Pick us-east-1 and every widget that filters on $region follows. The selection is stored in the URL, so a link carries it. See variables.
Time controls
Section titled “Time controls”The time picker takes presets, a calendar or typed text such as yesterday or since Oct 1. A range can be live or paused, you can step, zoom and pick a timezone, and a single widget can override the dashboard range.
Changing the range is a view, not an edit. Your change lives in the URL and never overwrites the dashboard’s saved default. To change the default, enter edit mode and choose Save as default time.
Dashboards also refresh themselves: the auto setting picks a cadence from the range. Full syntax and the refresh table are in the reference.
Editing and history
Section titled “Editing and history”Dashboards open read-only. Choose Edit (or press e) to change one, then Save or Discard.
In edit mode you can arrange widgets, group them under sections, copy and paste them between dashboards, and undo and redo. If someone else saved first, a conflict dialog tells you instead of overwriting their work.
Every save is a version with a summary of what changed. Version history lists them, previews any one, and restores it as a new version.
A dashboard can be locked. Only its creator and account admins can edit a locked dashboard. Viewers and Auditors can only view. See roles and permissions.
Sharing
Section titled “Sharing”Share creates a public, read-only link with its own allowed time ranges, variables, theme and expiry. TV mode (?tv=1) removes the page chrome and enlarges the type for a wall screen. See sharing.
Dashboards or explorers
Section titled “Dashboards or explorers”Use a dashboard for the board you check every day, and an explorer for open-ended digging. A widget’s Open in explorer action carries its filters and time range across.
Dashboards do not send alerts. Threshold alerts are set up in the observability pillars, and incident notifications come from incident management.