Dashboards

Catalog not only gives you visibility on your databases, but also on one of the key destinations of your data: your visualisation tools. The dashboard section will give you all the insights you need.

Dashboards are organised by technology and then by project. There are 3 types of sub-assets:

Dashboards
Tiles, which correspond to a
- Look for Looker
- Question for Metabase
Explores (Looker), Data sources (Tableau), Datasets (PowerBI), Apps (Qlik)

Home

The Dashboard description can be added on the home tab.

The section is a rich text to enable custom formatting.

To be able to see rich text options, simply select a portion of text:

Details

At the right, the Details menu summarises key attributes of the selected Dashboard asset. It is visible from all tabs

Certified: Admins can mark a dashboard as certified to indicate documentation has been reviewed ✅
Deprecated: Admins can mark a dashboard as deprecated to prevent users from using it ⚠️
Favorites: Users can mark dashboards as favorites
Dashboard button: link to dashboard
Owners: a user can be assigned as the owner of a dashboard
Popularity: computed based on the number of views
Description: contains an extract of the description in the Home tab. By clicking on it, you will return to the Home tab.
Mentioned in: lists pages where the selected is linked
Tags: tags can be used to describe tables. They are common for all users of a company.
SQL source: SQL queries generating the dashboard
Source: dashboard technology