Survey for monitoring feature prioritization

Links

• #882 (closed) Research request
• #883 (closed) Recruitment request
• Project folder with Research plan, Survey and Features list
• Survey
  • Version 1 (Please input Test into the Job title field if you don't want us to analyze your answer)
• Analysis spreadsheets
  • Internal – GitLab SREs
  • External – Firstlook
• Dovetail project

Checklist

Design survey

• Draft the survey
• Create a list of features
• Transfer the survey questions to Qualtrics @akiripolsky

Pilot survey

• Fill the survey and fix any problematic pieces in the MR
• Fix the survey in Qualtrics @akiripolsky @nadia_sotnikova

Collect responses – Round 1 – Internal

• Distribute the survey to GitLab SRE team @dhershkovitch
• Improve the questionnaire based on the feedback from SREs @akiripolsky
• Input the data collected to the analysis spreadsheet @akiripolsky

Collect responses – Round 2 – External

• Open a Recruiting request issue. Assign it to the relevant Research Coordinator @dhershkovitch
• When the survey is ready, ask Emily in the recruitment issue to send the survey to external participants from FirstLook @akiripolsky
• Notify Research Coordinator of survey closure. @akiripolsky

Document findings

• Analyze the data @akiripolsky
• Document the results @dhershkovitch
• Document insights in Dovetail
• Create actionable insight issue
• Update Metrics direction page
• Update the Problem validation research issue. Link to findings in Dovetail. Unmark as confidential if applicable. Close issue.

Survey about requirements for monitoring/Features list.md

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 In GitLab a dashboard in a group of charts, a single dashboard can contain one or more chart
 
 
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+
 <!-- Depends on the scope of this research study, 
 currently its not well defined.-->
-
+Dashboard consists of one or more panels that can contain chart or text. 
+Dashboard configuration is described in a text file that can be changed by users.
 
 ## Features
 
-Current experience: the user can rearrange charts in a dashboard using a yml file
-![image.png](./image.png)
-Feature description: Rearrange charts on your dashboard using drag and drop functionality
+### Dashboard level
 
-Current experience: The panels in the dashboard are at fixed height and length
-Feature description: Resize a panel on a dashboard using a cursor
+##### ⭐Import dashboard templates to create new dashboards
+
+##### ⭐Add variables to a dashboard
+<img src='./image_5.png' width=600px />
+
+##### ⭐Out of the box dashboard for monitoring different technologies and services
+
+##### ⭐Ability to delete out of the box dashboards from Metrics
+
+##### ⭐Group dashboards into folders
+Group dashboard into folders
+
+##### ⭐Add tags to dashboard for easier search
+Add tag to a dashboard to better help you searching for a dashboard
+
+##### ⭐Add a special panel with custom hyperlinks
+<img src='./image_1.png' width=600px />
 
-![image_1.png](./image_1.png)
 Provide the ability to add hyper links from a dashboard to allow: 
 
 * Drill down from a dashboard into another dashboard
 
 * Drill down from a dashboard to an external source
 
-![image_2.png](./image_2.png)
-Provide the ability to add hyper links from a panel in a dashboard to allow 
-
-* Drill down from a chart to another chart
+##### ⭐Rearange panels using drag and drop
+<img src='./image.png' width=600px />
 
-* Drill down to an external source
+Current experience: the user can rearrange charts in a dashboard using a yml file
+Feature description: Rearrange charts on your dashboard using drag and drop functionality
 
-![image_3.png](./image_3.png)
-Annotation is a vertical line on a chart, when hovered it provide additional 
+##### ⭐Resize panels with cursor cursor 
+Current experience: The panels in the dashboard are at fixed height and length
+Feature description: Resize a panel on a dashboard using a cursor
 
-Add tag to a dashboard to better help you searching for a dashboard
+### Panel level
 
-Group dashboard into folders
+##### ⭐Add custom hyperlinks to the options menu of a panel
+<img src='./image_2.png' width=600px />
 
-Configure alert directly from a metric chart
+Provide the ability to add hyper links from a panel in a dashboard to allow 
 
-Current experience: Thresholds and alerts are tightly coupled
-![image_4.png](./image_4.png)
-Feature: Allow the users to set and see diffrent thresholds without triggering an alert
+* Drill down from a chart to another chart
 
-Change the appearance of the line on a chart (color, width, dotted line, etc..)
+* Drill down to an external source
 
-Out of the box dashboard for monitoring different technologies and services
+##### ⭐Annotate metric charts
+<img src='./image_3.png' width=600px />
 
-Ability to delete out of the box dashboards from Metrics
+Annotation is a vertical line on a chart, when hovered it provide additional 
 
-Ability to correlate between metric chart and logs
+##### ⭐Configure alert directly from a metric chart
 
-Import dashboard templates to create new dashboards
+##### ⭐Add thresholds that do not trigger alerts
+<img src='./image_4.png' width=600px />
 
-![image_5.png](./image_5.png)
-Add variables to a dashboard
+Current experience: Thresholds and alerts are tightly coupled
+Feature: Allow the users to set and see diffrent thresholds without triggering an alert
 
+##### ⭐Change the appearance of the line on a chart (color, width, dotted line, etc..)
 
+##### ⭐Ability to correlate between metric chart and logs