Developing your dashboard further

Let’s now develop our dashboard further and improve the information we share. Approaching your dashboard as a work in progress that you can iterate over as you develop the message it is communicating is key to getting the right message across. In this section, we’ll use an example where there’s an increasing count of requests to the frontend app, which does not really tell us much. Showing the rate of those requests makes more sense, as we will be able to see the speed at which they arrive in our app. Let’s make that change now:

1. From the panel’s triple-dots drop-down menu, select Edit and you will see the following screen:

Figure 8.10 – The panel editor

2. Back in the panel editor, we can see that the query build gives us a hint to add a rate; this is highlighted with a blue box around it. Click on this hint to add the suggested aggregation to the existing query ...