[data-ottawa]

Dashboards have a very long tail depending on use case.

You've got daily driver exec and performance dashboards, then you have over time trend dashboards, and finally you have drill down self serve explore of data export tools. Alerting should be separate.

It's expected that most dashboards will not be checked often, trends don't change daily so it's usually not meaningful to look at most metrics daily. Self serve tools are only needed occasionally, but exist as a cost savings on data teams doing low effort high time tasks.

Dashboard tools and spreadsheets are the only good tools for sharing data, I find most reports and spreadsheets are actually just one offs.