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by devchix 1763 days ago
1. Set up some strawmen about dashboards

1a. Define dashboards in a way that suits your argument

2. Knock em down!

3. Profit?

This, https://status.cloud.google.com/, is a static dashboard. One can make up one's mind about its usefulness and function. A blunt example, but nobody I know "debugs" using dashboards.

Dashboard is automation, if you're against dashboards, you're against automation of repetitive, boring, long-winded, laborious, hard-to-remember, tasks. Dashboards aren't sacred, once one outlives its usefulness, get rid of it.