How many dashboards do you really need?

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Hi all, Quentin from Appfire here 👋

If you manage dashboards for more than one audience, you know how fast they multiply. Engineering wants to see their projects, leadership wants a high-level view, and support wants their queue.  It’s the same underlying data, just filtered each time differently, so you end up building and maintaining a dozen near-identical dashboards, and every tweak means updating them one by one.

The real fix isn’t more dashboards, it’s one dashboard that each person can adjust to their own view. So we built Adaptive Filters in Dashboard Hub: viewers filter the data in real time to focus on what matters to them, without touching the underlying gadgets or needing a separate dashboard built for them.

Why this helps your team

• One dashboard, many views: Build a single centralized dashboard and let each viewer narrow it down to their team, project, or status — no more cloning a new dashboard every time someone needs a different view.
• Smart, safe filter values: Drop-downs only show values from data already on the dashboard, so nobody scrolls through thousands of irrelevant Jira fields — and nothing outside the dashboard’s scope is ever exposed.
• Control it gadget by gadget: Want one gadget to always show the big picture while the rest filters? Hover and toggle its filter off. Anything showing filtered data gets a blue border, so you always know what you’re looking at.
• Tailor the filter bar: Editors can remove defaults and mix up to ten filters from a variety of built-in Jira fields and supported custom fields, so viewers aren’t overwhelmed by options they don’t need.
• Safe for external sharing: Sharing via public links or customer portals? Admins can switch the filter bar off entirely for external viewers.

Getting started is quick: any dashboard with at least one Jira gadget comes with a default set of filters — Projects, Work Item Types, Status, Assignee, Created Date — plus a free-text “Contains” field for exact matches. Watch this video to learn more.

How many dashboards are you really running?

Have you ended up with a pile of near-duplicate dashboards for different teams? How are you handling it today? Drop a note below.

If you want to set this up, our documentation covers the filter bar, gadget controls, and admin settings. And you’ll find Dashboard Hub on the Atlassian Marketplace.