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Dashboards

The Catalog gives you visibility on your databases and on one of the key destinations of your data: your visualization tools. The dashboard section gives you all the insights you need.

Dashboards are organized by technology and then by project. There are 3 types of sub-assets:

  • Dashboards
  • Tiles, which correspond to a
    • Look for Looker
    • Question for Metabase
  • Explores, Data sources, Datasets (Power BI), Apps (Qlik)
Dashboard organization by technology and project
Tableau data source view

Home​

The Dashboard description can be added on the Home tab.

Dashboard home tab with description

The section is a rich text to enable custom formatting.

To be able to see rich text options, simply select a portion of text:

Rich text formatting options

Details​

At the right, the Details menu summarizes key attributes of the selected Dashboard asset. It is visible from all tabs.

Dashboard details panel
  • Certified: Admins can mark a dashboard as certified to indicate documentation has been reviewed
  • Deprecated: Admins can mark a dashboard as deprecated to prevent users from using it
  • Favorites: Users can mark dashboards as favorites
  • Dashboard button: link to dashboard
  • Owners: a user can be assigned as the owner of a dashboard
  • Popularity: computed based on the number of views
  • Description: contains an extract of the description in the Home tab. By clicking on it, you will return to the Home tab.
  • Mentioned in: lists pages where the selected is linked
  • Tags: tags can be used to describe tables. They are common for all users of a company.
  • SQL source: SQL queries generating the dashboard
  • Source: dashboard technology

Lineage​

The Lineage tab lists the assets used to create the selected dashboard.

Dashboard lineage view

By clicking on an asset, a details panel will appear, containing link to the asset page, SQL source, popularity, and description.

You can expand the graph by clicking on "+" buttons.

Pinned Assets​

To improve your dashboards read-mes, you can directly pin relevant assets to it.

Pinned assets on a dashboard

How does this work? See the pinned assets page for details.

Comments​

To easily collaborate and communicate between users, each dashboard has a Comments section.

Dashboard comments section

History​

A log of changes is kept under the History tab:

Dashboard history tab