[sardonicbryan]

Dashboards don't have to be expensive to build. My company uses Graphite now, but before we were at that level, I just had engineering give me credentials for our DBs, and used ODBC + Excel.

Next thing you know, you have a dashboard tracking: - Real time revenue/revenue projections - Real time payments funnel metrics (impressions on payments page, conversions, average transaction size) - Real time tutorial completion rate by hour (aka application health monitoring) - Other KPIs tracked by the day (revenue, install, etc.)

In fact, there was a period of time when my dashboard was the most effective health monitoring in the company, and detected an issue before engineering or ops.