UX: Improve analytics dashboard discovery for Duo Agent Platform launch

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Problem

Users struggle to find analytics dashboards (for example: GitLab Duo and SDLC trends) due to complex navigation requiring prior knowledge of group/project location and multiple steps through Analyze → Analytics dashboards. Additionally, AI Catalog and CI/CD Catalog users cannot easily access related analytics.

As a first pass at increasing discoverability, we should:

  1. Add contextual links to relevant analytics throughout the interface
  2. Improve dashboard accessibility from the homepage (Your work menu) and Explore menu

Proposals

1. Add a way to link the GitLab Duo and SDLC trends dashboard from the AI catalog

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Note: In the future we should also look into leveraging the same pattern for linking the CD/CI analytics dashboard from the CI/CD Catalog.

2. Add a way to access analytics dashboards from the homepage (Your work menu)

  • Add a new "Analytics dashboards" nav item under "Activity" that links to /explore/analytics/dashboards/select-group-or-project/.
  • Clicking on Analytics dashboards will open a new page called "Select group or project" that will direct the user to the correct Analytics dashboard list view.
Current Proposal

Your work

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  • Groups
  • Issues
  • Merge requests
  • To-Do List
  • Milestones
  • Snippets
  • Activity
  • Import history
  • Workspaces
  • Environments
  • Operations
  • Security

Your work

  • Projects
  • Groups
  • Issues
  • Merge requests
  • To-Do List
  • Milestones
  • Snippets
  • Activity
  • Analytics Dashboards
  • Import history
  • Workspaces
  • Environments
  • Operations
  • Security
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3. Add a way to access analytics dashboards from the Explore menu

  • Add a new "Analytics dashboards" nav item under "AI Catalog" that links to /explore/analytics/dashboards/select-group-or-project/.
  • Clicking on Analytics dashboards will open a new page called "Select group or project" that will direct the user to the correct Analytics dashboard list view.
Current Proposal

Explore

  • Projects
  • Groups
  • CI/CD Catalog
  • AI Catalog
  • Topics
  • Snippets

Explore

  • Projects
  • Groups
  • CI/CD Catalog
  • AI Catalog
  • Analytics Dashboards
  • Topics
  • Snippets

Resources

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