How to Build Dashboards with Rudder Lookout Private Beta

A dashboard turns an ad-hoc answer into something your team keeps. Dashboards are built and iterated on in chat, each has its own link inside your workspace, and they re-run their queries fresh on every load — so a dashboard always reflects current data.

Build a dashboard from chat

When an answer is worth keeping, ask the agent to save it as a dashboard panel. The agent writes a dashboard specification, its parameters and panels, and gives it a slug-addressed URL inside your workspace.

You can keep refining a dashboard conversationally — ask the agent to add a panel, change a grouping, or adjust a filter, and it edits the dashboard in place.

Panel types

A dashboard is made up of panels. Lookout supports four panel types:

Parameters and filters

Every dashboard carries parameters that let viewers re-scope the data without editing it:

• Time range: Always present, so any viewer can change the window the dashboard covers.
• Filters: Optional single-select and multi-select filters you can add to narrow the data.

Because dashboards re-run their queries on every load, changing a parameter always pulls current numbers rather than cached ones.

Live data, nothing cached

Dashboards store their definition, not their data. Each time a dashboard loads, its queries run again against your warehouse, and no result rows are cached. This keeps dashboards current and means your warehouse data stays in your warehouse.

Share a dashboard

Dashboards are visible to everyone in your workspace by default. You can also publish a read-only version to people outside the workspace via a public link.

See How to Share Dashboards for more details.