Dashboards
Pinned, share-ready views of your team's key numbers and charts.
Dashboards turn one-off answers into durable, share-ready views. Pin the metrics your team keeps asking about — revenue, signups, active users, pipeline — so everyone sees the same picture the next time someone asks "how are we doing?"
What dashboards are for
Slack threads are great for answering a question once. Dashboards are for answering it forever. Use them to:
Team KPIs
One big-number-per-widget view of the metrics leadership tracks each week.
Exec reviews
A stable, sharable URL you can open in a meeting instead of re-running SQL.
Function health
Growth, sales, ops, or support boards that mix trends, tables, and context.
Narrative reports
Mix charts with text widgets to explain the "why" next to the numbers.
Creating a dashboard
Open Dashboards
In the web app sidebar, go to Dashboards. You'll see every dashboard in your org.
Create a new board
Click New dashboard, give it a name, an optional description, and tags for filtering later.
Add your first widget
Use the widget picker on the empty dashboard, or pipe a result in from Slack (see below).
Adding widgets
There are two ways widgets land on a dashboard.
From a chat result
Any chart or table Datost produces in Slack or the web chat can be pinned with a single click. Datost carries over the SQL, the data source, the chart type, and the axis mapping, so the widget refreshes against live data — not a static snapshot.
Authored directly
Open the widget configuration modal to write SQL, pick a data source, choose a chart type, and set axis keys yourself.
Widget types
Datost supports the following widget types: bar, horizontal bar, stacked bar, line, area, scatter, donut, radar, treemap, heatmap, funnel, composed (bar + line on dual axes), KPI (single big number with optional previous-period comparison), and text (Markdown block for descriptions and section headers).
Layout, resize, and rearrange
Dashboards use a row-based auto-layout. Each widget has a row, an order within the row, and a size hint — small, medium, large, or full. Drag widgets to reorder them, or open a widget's menu to resize. The layout is responsive, so a full-width KPI on desktop stacks cleanly on a laptop.
Sharing and access
Share a dashboard by copying its URL. For long-lived reporting, you can also export a dashboard to Omni for use in your BI stack.
Refresh and caching
Widget results are cached in Redis for fast loads, with the latest successful query also persisted to the database as a fallback. Hit Refresh on a single widget to re-run its SQL, or Refresh all on the dashboard header to re-execute every widget at once. KPI widgets with time variables also run a previous-period query automatically so you can see the delta.