Real-Time Dashboard best practices
Consider the following best practices when implementing real-time dashboards in Microsoft Fabric.
- Clarity and Simplicity: Keep the dashboard simple and avoid clutter.
- Use clear labels for tiles and visuals.
- Use more pages for navigation or subject area when necessary.
- Relevance: Ensure that the data displayed is relevant to the dashboard's purpose and the audience's needs.
- Refresh Rate: Set an appropriate refresh rate to ensure data is up to date without overloading the system.
- Consult with your users to ensure refresh rates are within expectations.
- Accessibility: Design dashboards that are accessible to all users, including those with viewer permissions.
- Interactivity: Include features that allow users to interact with the data, such as filters and drill-down capabilities.
- Elicit feedback regularly to ensure that the reports continue to provide value.
- As users become more familiar with the products, the introduction of new features can enhance their productivity.
- Use Copilot when possible to increase productivity.
- Performance: Optimize queries and visuals for performance to ensure a smooth user experience.
- Include parameters, which apply filters at the query and are executed during the rendering of the Real-Time Dashboard.
- Don't query more than you use in the visualization to meet the customer requirements.
- Security: Implement appropriate security measures.
- Protect sensitive data.
- Remember, Fabric is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, and it's critical that you properly manage who has access to the system (authentication), and what they have access too (authorization).
- Testing: Regularly test the dashboard for functionality and performance issues.
- Testing should include user-acceptance testing and feedback loops.