Improve the URL of custom metrics dashboards

Problem to solve

Metrics dashboard URLs are quite long and difficult for a user to visualize which dashboard is being loaded at first glance. This makes it difficult to share URLs and collaborate with multiple dashboards between people.

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)
• Sidney (Systems Administrator)

Further details

Proposal

Currently, a dashboard URL looks something like:

https://gitlab.com/ClemMakesApps/test-metrics/-/environments/1677270/metrics?dashboard=.gitlab/dashboards/sla.yml

Potential solution:

• assume that the first environment is being used if no environment is in the URL
• remove the .gitlab/dashboard part of the URL
• denote dashboard as /d/ for easy access

https://gitlab.com/ClemMakesApps/test-metrics/-/d/sla.yml

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Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

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