Dashboards should be available at an organization level
Problem
Current State
GitLab currently provides analytics dashboards at three distinct levels:
- Instance level (
/-/analytics/dashboards) - Group level (
/groups/group/-/analytics/dashboards) - Project level (
/project/-/analytics/dashboards)
Core Problems
- Fragmented Data Views: Users must navigate between multiple tabs to view reports across different groups, creating an inefficient workflow.
- Inconsistent Experience: The user experience differs between group and project-level dashboards, making it harder for users to switch contexts.
- Limited Data Aggregation: There is no capability to aggregate or roll up metrics across multiple groups, a feature repeatedly requested by customers.
This aggregation limitation extends beyond dashboards and affects other GitLab features, as documented in the broader discussion about hierarchical data visualization (issue: Problems with GitLab's Knowledge Architecture (#467558)).
The lack of cross-group data aggregation forces users to manually compile insights across organizational boundaries, impacting their ability to gain comprehensive visibility into their metrics.
Supporting research / feedback (WIP)
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Proposal
Limiting the scope of this problem to Dashboards — Ideally there would be a single place to navigate to in GitLab to see all dashboards that a user has permissions to. Similarly, for users that just want to explore what data is available, there should be a single place to navigate to and filter and aggregate data across projects and groups.
- Add a way to access dashboards at an organization level
- Add a way to access the the Data Explorer at an organization level
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Questions
- Where would be the best place in the navigation to add these items?
- How are other groups within the Plan stage approaching this problem?
- How does the Cells team work overlap?