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Descriptions of features that we will present to the respondents.
## Guidelines
- Clear and sufficiently detailed description that sets the feature into
necessary system context.
- Simple language without GitLab lingo or sales pitching.
- Simple language without GitLab lingo or sales pitching
### Feature description structure
- Feature: What can the user see in the UI
- Behavior: What does it do
- Value: Why do we want to introduce it
### Questions
In the survey the questions about feature will be asked in a following way:
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- I can tolerate it
- I dislike it
## Current experience
Even though we will try to add as much context to each feature description, it
is still necessary to provide at least general explanation of what system
are we talking about.
<!-- Note: we need to align with the terminology charts or panels-->
In GitLab a dashboard in a group of charts, a single dashboard can contain one or more chart
## Current features
- GitLab monitoring is... Consists of dashboards.
- Dashboard consists of a number of panels. Each panel can contain a static a chart,
a numerical indicator or a static markdown text. It is possible to create new
and delete existing dashboards.
- Configuration of each dashboard is done by editing a yaml file.
<!-- Depends on the scope of this research study,
currently its not well defined.-->
## Features
## New features
### Dashboard level
##### ⭐Import dashboard templates to create new dashboards
Dashboard creation templates
that you can choose from when creating new dashboards.
It will speed up the dashboard creation process and improve consistency.
##### ⭐Add variables to a dashboard
<img src='./image_5.png' width=800px />
An special interactive 'quick configuration panel'
where you can tune specific variables of the dashboard right in the dashboard UI.
It will allow you to have smaller number of dashboards created and therefore
make dashboard management easier.
<img src='./image_5.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐Out of the box dashboard for monitoring different technologies and services
A set of out-of-the-box dashboards for the most common technologies and services
that are configured automatically when you set up monitoring in GitLab.
It will improve experience of users that just started using the monitoring
features of GitLab.
##### ⭐Ability to delete out of the box dashboards from Metrics
##### ⭐Group dashboards into folders
Group dashboard into folders
Dashboard folders in the dropdown
that you can group your dashboards with
to improve organization of your dashboards.
##### ⭐Add tags to dashboard for easier search
Add tag to a dashboard to better help you searching for a dashboard
Tag with searchable keywords
that you can assign to dashboards.
It will allow you to find dashboards faster.
##### ⭐Add a special panel with custom hyperlinks
<img src='./image_1.png' width=800px />
Provide the ability to add hyper links from a dashboard to allow:
A special panel with a list of custom hyperlinks
so you can drill down to a tool of your choice (e.g. another dashboard or external tool)
right from the dashboard UI.
To speed up navigation between different tools.
* Drill down from a dashboard into another dashboard
* Drill down from a dashboard to an external source
<img src='./image_1.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐Rearange panels using drag and drop
<img src='./image.png' width=800px />
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
A possibility
to rearrange panels using drag and drop rather than by editing the yaml file.
<img src='./image.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐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
##### ⭐Resize panels with cursor
A possibility
to resize panels using cursor rather than by editing the yaml file.
### Panel level
##### ⭐Add custom hyperlinks to the options menu of a panel
<img src='./image_2.png' width=800px />
Provide the ability to add hyper links from a panel in a dashboard to allow
* Drill down from a chart to another chart
Custom hyperlink in the options menu of a panel,
so you can drill down to a tool of your choice (e.g. another dashboard or external tool)
right from the relevant panel.
To speed up navigation between different tools.
* Drill down to an external source
<img src='./image_2.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐Annotate metric charts
<img src='./image_3.png' width=800px />
Annotation is a vertical line on a chart, when hovered it provide additional
Annotation, a vertical line in a chart, that shows custom message on hover,
so you can manually highlight an important point within the chart.
To improve collaboration and informativeness of the chart.
<img src='./image_3.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐Configure alert directly from a metric chart
A contextual alert configuration popup openable from within the metric chart
where you can configure alerts
without the necessity to navigate to a dedicated alert configuration page.
It will improve the speed of alert configuration and provide better awareness
of the underlying metric.
##### ⭐Add thresholds that do not trigger alerts
<img src='./image_4.png' width=800px />
<img src='./image_4.png' width=600px />
Current experience: Thresholds and alerts are tightly coupled
Feature: Allow the users to set and see diffrent thresholds without triggering an alert