# How to Build Dashboards with Rudder Lookout


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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.

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## 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:

| Panel | <div style="width: 350px;">Best for</div> |
|-------|----------|
| **Chart** | Trends and comparisons over time or across categories |
| **Table** | Row-level detail and breakdowns |
| **Metric** | A single headline number, such as a total or a rate |
| **Funnel** | Step-by-step conversion through a sequence of events |

## 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 dashboards

Every dashboard is visible to everyone in your workspace by default. Use the **Share** menu on a dashboard to confirm workspace visibility or to create a public link.

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