## 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 1. **Fragmented Data Views**: Users must navigate between multiple tabs to view reports across different groups, creating an inefficient workflow. 2. **Inconsistent Experience**: The user experience differs between group and project-level dashboards, making it harder for users to switch contexts. 3. **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: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/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) - Feedback collection issue for various use cases https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/516070+ - ... ## 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. See ~UX issue for latest proposal: :arrow_right: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/527178+ ## Questions / concerns - 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 do we maintain performance when rolling up large amounts of data? - How do we handle permissions across different dashboards and individual data sources?