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

@@ -36,19 +36,21 @@ In the survey the questions about feature will be asked in a following way:
 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 its configuration yaml file.
+- Alerts that are set on a metric are visualized on the metric chart. 
 
 ## New features
 
 ### Dashboard level
 
 ##### ⭐Import dashboard templates to create new dashboards
-Templates
-that you can choose from when creating new dashboards
-to speed up the dashboard creation process and improve consistency.
+Templates for yaml configuration files
+that you can choose when creating new dashboards. 
+Templates contain basic file structure, configuration examples and comments
+to speed up the dashboard creation process and improve consistency across dashboards.
 
 ##### ⭐Add variables to a dashboard
 Interactive 'quick configuration panel'
-where you can tune specific variables of the dashboard right in the dashboard UI. 
+where you can select 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 simpler. 
 
@@ -60,8 +62,6 @@ 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
 Dashboard folders in the dropdown 
 that you can group your dashboards in
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ To speed up navigation between different tools.
 
 ##### ⭐Annotate metric charts
 Annotation, a vertical line in a chart that shows custom message on hover,
-so you can manually highlight an important point within the chart.
+so you can highlight an important point within the chart.
 To improve collaboration and informativeness of the chart.
 
 <img src='./image_3.png' width=600px />
@@ -121,4 +121,10 @@ Feature: Allow the users to set and see diffrent thresholds without triggering a
 
 ##### ⭐Change the appearance of the line on a chart (color, width, dotted line, etc..)
 
-##### ⭐Ability to correlate between metric chart and logs
+##### ⭐Set a dashboard as Metrics home page for the whole project (admin setting)
+
+An admin or a maintainer of a project can set a dashboard as Metrics home page which will be the default landing page for Metrics for all users.
+
+##### ⭐Override the admin Metrics home page settings with a user-specific Metrics home page setting
+
+Individual users can set the dashboard they use the most as Metrics home page, which will override the default admin setting.
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