I've seen dashboards where it feels like someone tried to display every piece of data the system has ever collected.
Twenty graphs.
Fifteen gauges.
A map.
Several tables.
And about 40 numbers blinking everywhere.
Technically impressive.
Practically exhausting.
A good dashboard should answer useful questions quickly.
For example:
Which devices are offline?
Which machines are behaving unusually?
Did anything change recently?
Where is the biggest problem?
You don't necessarily need every measurement visible all the time.
The purpose of a dashboard isn't to prove that you collected a lot of data.
It's to help someone understand what matters.
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