Dashboards are becoming a central focus for Kentik.
To make dashboards more intuitive and easy to work with, we have made a few enhancements over the month of March 2018 to make them even more useful and powerful. See for yourself

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New Edit Mode

In the past, EDIT mode looked too much like VIEW mode, so we have now added a few visual clues to make it easier for the user to see at a glance which mode they are currently in.

Updated Add/Edit Panel Dialog

We also created a much cleaner and easier flow for adding new panels or editing existing ones. You no longer have to switch between Data Explorer and the add/edit panel dialog. We now include the query sidebar and the resulting visualization right in the panel dialog window.

Panel Description

One additional change that users may notice is a Description field in the add/edit panel dialog. The description entered here, will appear as a mouse-over popup when viewing the dashboard panel. This allows dashboard creators to deliver more context for each panel.

Interactive Dashboards

Another new feature we added is called Interactive Dashboards. This feature allows users to click on an item in a panel to get a filtered view based on that data item. The filter applies to all panels on the dashboard and can be seen by viewing the Filters pane in the sidebar.

This feature is enabled using the Cross-Panel Filtering selector in the add/edit panel dialog.

The following view types currently support Cross-Panel Filtering:

• Time Series Stacked Graph
• Time Series 100% Stacked Graph
• Time Series Bar Graph
• Time Series Line Graph
• Comparison Bar Chart
• Pie Chart
• Tables
• Gauge

We will be adding support for the remaining view types in the near future. Keep an eye on upcoming product updates for more information.