Dashboards
Dashboards collect governed metrics into a single, shareable view. Every tile resolves through the semantic layer at load time, so a dashboard is never a stale copy of your data — it is a live read of the same definitions used everywhere else in Aptrics.
This guide covers building a dashboard, arranging and configuring tiles, wiring up filters, and sharing the result with your team.
Building a Dashboard
Create a Dashboard
From the Dashboards tab, choose New dashboard and give it a name and short description. Dashboards belong to a project and read from the environment you are currently in, so the same dashboard can show development and production numbers as you switch environments.
Add Tiles
Add a tile by picking a metric from the catalog or by pinning a saved exploration from the Metrics tab. Each tile keeps its own dimensions, filters, and visualization type, and can be edited in place without leaving the dashboard.
Arrange the Layout
Drag tiles to reorder them and resize from the corner handle. The grid reflows responsively, so a dashboard built on a wide monitor still reads correctly on a laptop. Group related tiles under section headers to give the page a narrative order — headline stats first, breakdowns below.
Choose Tile Types
Stat tiles show a single number with its period-over-period change and suit headline metrics. Charts — line, bar, area — show movement and comparison. Tables carry detail and many columns. Text tiles add context, caveats, and links so a reader knows how to interpret what they are looking at.
Filters and Refresh
Dashboard-level Filters
Add filter controls at the top of a dashboard for the dimensions readers care about most — region, segment, product line. A dashboard filter applies to every tile whose model exposes that dimension; tiles that do not expose it are left untouched rather than silently mismatched.
Shared Time Range
A single time-range control drives every time-aware tile so the whole page reports on one window. Individual tiles can opt out and pin their own range when a fixed comparison — last full quarter, year to date — should stay constant.
Refresh Behavior
Tiles fetch on load and can be refreshed individually or all at once. Where caching is enabled on the connector, results are served from cache within the configured window; the tile footer shows when the data was last fetched.
Sharing and Access
Share with Your Team
Dashboards inherit project permissions, so anyone with access to the project can open them. Share the dashboard URL directly — filter and time-range selections are encoded in it, which means the link you send shows exactly the view you were looking at.
Export
Export any tile to CSV for offline work, or export the dashboard to PDF for reporting. Exports respect the filters active at the time of export.