Ask HN: Good examples of management dashboards?
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I think you missed the key thing in design of a dashboard: the user. The information presented and the purpose of the dashboard would be heavily influenced by who the user is or what role they play and their technical background.
Is it for engineers? engineering management? sales? CxO? That should factor into what is well thought out and doesn't overwhelm the user. If it is a CxO level person viewing a dashboard about the systems, they probably don't care about IT stats (RAM, CPU, I/O, etc.) but is it up or down, what is overall health, etc.
Is it for engineers? engineering management? sales? CxO? That should factor into what is well thought out and doesn't overwhelm the user. If it is a CxO level person viewing a dashboard about the systems, they probably don't care about IT stats (RAM, CPU, I/O, etc.) but is it up or down, what is overall health, etc.
There's no general solution to this. you need to do needfinding and user studies.
I had suggested digitalocean's dashboard was elegant and concise,but a few other developers thought it was too simple, they preferred something more like nasa's open MCT.
Obviously it is heavily dependent on what information is being presented and what the dashboard is being used for, but I am interested in hearing what examples of management dashboards you have come across.