Dashboards

A dashboard is a top-level container that

provides a Grid system for Widgets
provides a unique URL Path for access e.g. /workspace-name/dashboard-name
sets global style preferences for grid and widgets

Key Features

Flexible Grid Layout - Customizable columns and rows with automatic responsive behavior
Custom URL Paths - User-friendly, shareable URLs for each dashboard
Style Presets - Optimized rendering for low-frequency and high-frequency data updates
Widget Management - Add, position, and configure multiple widgets on a single dashboard
Sharing Controls - Manage access permissions for users and teams
Real-Time Updates - Widgets automatically update as new data arrives

Grid System

The grid automatically

controls how widgets can be placed on a dashboard
controls how widgets behave under certain dynamic conditions
handles responsive sizing on different screen sizes, resizing a window, rotating a device
handles widget overflow and scrolling
handles empty cells

The grid is defined by

Columns - Number of columns
Rows - Number of rows

The grid size results from the numbers of columns and rows, and determines the maximum number of widgets can be placed on a dashboard.

Widgets positioning

Cell Index - Starting position in the grid
Column Span - How many columns the widget occupies
Row Span - How many rows the widget occupies

Style Presets

Styles are optimized to enhance dashboard user-experience based on your data update patterns. For dashboards with high-frequency data updates (shorter than a minute), specialized styles ensure stable positioning of tooltips, numbers, and chart labels, while maintaining smooth rendering performance.

Currently Dashgrid provides two style presets:

Default LF: for dashboards updated in low-frequency (update cycles longer than a minute)
Default HF: for dashboards updated in high-frequency (update cycles shorter than a minute)

URL Path

Each dashboard has a unique URL Path within its workspace. The canonical address combines the workspace path and dashboard path.

e.g. https://dashgrid.com/workspace-path/dashboard-path

When creating a dashboard, its title automatically provides a readable path. In title mode, the Full URL preview always follows the title; no separate slug input is shown. Admins and Owners can instead enable a server-generated random path in Dashboard Settings. Editors cannot make a title change that would change a title-derived path.

Title-derived paths use 3–50 lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. The form checks availability within the workspace. Changing the path immediately changes the dashboard and widget addresses; existing links using the previous path stop working and do not redirect.

Access Control

Data Buckets and API Keys

can be only accessed and managed by users with roles Owner or Admin
are only accessible within the dashboard where those are defined

For more see the Sharing section.

Deleting a Dashboard

Deleting a dashboard permanently deletes everything it contains:

all Widgets
all Data Buckets, including all stored records
all API Keys — they are revoked immediately, and clients using them stop working
all sharings and pending invites — every user loses access to the dashboard immediately

Deletion is restricted to the dashboard Owner and must be confirmed by typing the dashboard title. It cannot be undone.

Deletion is all-or-nothing: if the dashboard's buckets and keys cannot be removed from the data service, nothing is deleted and you can retry.

Before deleting, stop all clients that still submit data to the dashboard's buckets.