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Overview

Overview

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Last updated: Jul 09, 2025 by Michelle Ruoff

Dashboards

A dashboard is a visualization tool for your organization’s data, like metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). This data is displayed using gadgets (see Overview | Gadgets), which are the small components that fetch the data and render it in an appropriate way, such as tables, graphs, and text.

  1. Dashboard selector: Here, you’ll find all the dashboards you have access to, including those accessible to the whole organization and your private ones.

  2. Jira Apps menu: This is the main access point for your dashboards. Once your admin installs the app, Dashboard Hub will appear there. You can always bookmark your main dashboard URL in your browser.

  3. Slideshow controls: If your dashboard has more than one slide, these controls will allow you to move from one slide to the next one or play the slideshow.

  4. Dashboard options:

    1. Dark mode. Switch on or off the whitish and blackish versions of the theme.

    2. Share dashboard. Share your dashboard within your organization or externally.

    3. Access restriction. Set who can view and or edit your dashboards within the organization.

    4. Edit mode. Click here to enter the edition mode to configure your gadgets or add new ones.

    5. Actions (…) menu. The rest of the available actions for your dashboards or datasources.

    6. Help. Access our Help Center to get information or help.

See our live dashboards page to see examples of how our templates can be used for different teams.

Goal

The goal of a dashboard is to be the main display your team uses to track their work: monitor environments, visualize sales, detect incidents, analyze performance, track projects, and so on. Thus, teams can be more productive, get the right information, stay more focused, and waste less time switching contexts. 

Not a Jira dashboard

Our dashboards are not Jira dashboards. A Jira dashboard is meant to work with the instance where it’s installed. However, our dashboard connects not only with the current instance, but it can also connect with several Jira instances, as well as with several other tools like Bitbucket, Opsgenie, or Statuspage (see the full list Product and data integrations).

Gadgets

Overview

Gadgets are the small components in a dashboard that display the data. They fetch the data from the source as defined in the chosen datasource (see Learn about Datasources), and turn it into useful information. The information is rendered in a variety of forms like plain text, different graphs, tables, images, and so on.

Metrics and KPIs

Gadgets track your metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs); selecting the right gadget is the first step to creating useful dashboards that meet your goals.
Dashboard Hub provides a growing catalog of ready-to-go gadgets with the main metrics and KPIs (See Dashboard Gadgets: KPIs and Metrics).

It is important to choose the right visualization metaphor to represent your data in the most meaningful way and communicate the intended information to your audience.

To choose the appropriate gadget, you need to:

  • Identify your metrics, KPIs, or problem to solve.

  • Identify your audience.

  • Select the relevant gadget to display in your dashboard.

See also

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