[devchix]

That's why good dashboards come with Title, subtitle, legend, the X and Y axis, and units. Count of packets denied from source IP, source port, last 4 hours. Average number of requests forwarded to proxy farm, distributed by server, last 7 days vs. same time last month. Who called 2049, last 24 hours.

[arrrg]

Yeah, but why?

You are talking tactics, not strategy. What are the underlying goals?

[cratermoon]

Great, so I know exactly what I'm looking at. But it's not showing me anything I need to know to figure out why half the company is yelling at the team in Slack that something is terribly broken.

[devchix]

You are here, lat=x, long=y, bearing N 45 E at 5km/h, the air temp is -12C, it is 45min to sunset. You don't know where you should be. You are lost. Who's fault is it? Yours, or the dash?