On-Call Dashboard vs Leadership Dashboard: Different Tools

Same data, different views. The two-dashboard pattern that serves both audiences without compromise.

On-call dashboard

Time-series, current state, drilling into anomalies. 10-15 panels of dense detail.

Audience: technical, looking for action. The dashboard is a tool, not a presentation.

Leadership dashboard

Trend lines, week-over-week, against SLO targets. 4-6 panels of summary.

Audience: less technical, looking for status. The dashboard is the presentation.

Why split

Mixed-audience dashboards serve neither audience well. The one is too dense; the other is too sparse.

Maintenance: same metrics, different views. Cost is small; benefit is large.