Dashboards can be a very efficient communication tool for a team, between managers and business units. It enables an organization around a vision to share common goals. It can also be useful to identify weaknesses in processes and adapt your strategy according to them.
It exists a plethora of dashboard solutions, on-premise, SAAS, free , affordable and expensive ones.
To help me into the research of an open-source solution to integrate my own personal project, I did a small study of the available open-source dashboard solutions and defined some criterion.
How to choose my dashboard solution ?
- open-source : since my project is also open-source, I want to provide both open-source and vendor integration. To begin with, I want to elaborate first the open-source integration.
- Data storage : some dashboard solutions are providing their own embedded storage. Your time series are keep and you can control your history. At the opposite storage-less dashboards are using the concept of datasource. A datasource is a script or a component that will contact a remote resource to obtain the required information to be displayed into your dashboard. Therefore you are responsible to provide the exact information for the widget. Is it a chart or a table ? You will have to produce several resources to be consumed.
- Container : in 2017 no one want to painstakingly install a solution before using it. Therefore I…
