[rocqua]

I think some dashboards are meant for some form of situational awareness. At least "I can see when something is different" ideally even "I can recognize if everything is going well".

For those purposes it is difficult to answer 'what will we change' and even harder to automate the process.

[jameshart]

Yes, not arguing dashboards are a bad idea in all cases.

If there are five things you always need to go and check when someone asks you ‘is the system running okay?’ Or an alert goes off, by all means put those things on a dashboard.

But when someone just says ‘we want to be able to see these numbers’ it’s often worth asking what they plan to do with them.