Every engineering organization measures success differently. A dashboard that’s perfect for one team might be meaningless for another. While out-of-the-box views for DORA are a great starting point, leaders need the ability to define and share the specific combination of metrics that matter most to their business. Without this, you're either forcing your teams to conform to generic reports or wasting time rebuilding the same views every week.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce custom views in Engineering Intelligence. You can now create fully customizable dashboards, and align your entire organization around a single, shared source of truth that is tailored to your unique goals.
A shared language for your metrics
Custom views give you the flexibility to define and standardize the metrics that matter to your business. By tailoring dashboards to your priorities, you’re not just reporting on metrics, you’re creating a shared language for performance that aligns your entire organization.
Here's how custom views helps you achieve this:
Tailor dashboards to your priorities: Build and save the specific views that matter to your business. Whether it’s a high-level executive summary or a detailed reliability dashboard for a specific team, you can now create a view for every need.
Create a single source of truth: With shared dashboards, everyone from individual contributors to executive leadership is looking at the same data, presented the same way. This eliminates confusion and fosters alignment.
Facilitate data-driven decisions: By creating a common, customized language for your metrics, you can have more productive conversations and drive repeatable, data-informed operational excellence programs.
Putting custom views into practice
To show you the power and flexibility of Custom Views, we’re highlighting a few example dashboards that address some of the most common and critical questions engineering leaders have. Use these as a starting point to build a shared understanding of performance in your own organization.
Reliability Dashboard: Go beyond high-level MTTR and dive deeper into the metrics that drive service stability. This dashboard combines incident frequencies and resolution times with deployment-based metrics like change failure rate and rollback frequency.
Delivery Health Dashboard: See how work is flowing across teams. This dashboard combines deployment frequency with Jira-based metrics like work items and story points completed, alongside cycle time.
Incident Response Dashboard: Monitor how effectively teams are responding to incidents. This view surfaces key metrics like time to resolution, while also tying incident frequency back to potential causes like deployment frequency or PR size.
Create a shared language for performance
Custom views are more than flexible dashboards, they’re the foundation for repeatable, data-driven improvement. By empowering teams to build and share the dashboards that reflect their unique goals, you can foster deeper alignment, have more productive conversations, and ultimately drive a culture of data-driven improvement across your entire organization.
Ready to build the engineering dashboard you’ve always wanted? Learn more and schedule a demo of Cortex today.
