Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup?
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I have a little custom app written in Firebase that queries all the other services, generates data summaries in Firestore, and then renders them in a little React app. Yes I have to write code, but I haven't found a decent solution that actually does everything I want in one place.
I would feed everything to my inbox instead of checking things. Push data instead of polling.
Send an email when there’s an error in Sentry.
Send an email when a new user signs up.
Send an email report of your analytics.
Send an email when a ticket is changed in JIRA.
Leveraging your inbox is more versatile than a dashboard. Your inbox is accessible anywhere, doesn’t require more tooling, and can be filtered, prioritized, and searched.
Send an email when there’s an error in Sentry.
Send an email when a new user signs up.
Send an email report of your analytics.
Send an email when a ticket is changed in JIRA.
Leveraging your inbox is more versatile than a dashboard. Your inbox is accessible anywhere, doesn’t require more tooling, and can be filtered, prioritized, and searched.
Or slack
Based on the data sources you’ve mentioned, there’s not really a single dashboard that lets you pull together everything and customize their visuals. Generally I’ve seen folks use a simple ETL tool + custom scripts + dashboard tool to bring it together.
I’ve used Grafana with varying success for monitoring system metrics & analytics.
https://grafana.com/
https://grafana.com/
Buy a large dumb screen, hook it up to a mac mini and keep all the pages open with an auto-refresh plugin, alternatively there are plugins that cycle through web pages.
I'm curious to hear from this community - what dashboards or tools are you using to consolidate this data into a single, easy-to-digest view? What do you like about them, and what are their downsides?