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📣 caching_bytes

What are the steps to building custom real-time dashboards?


I've been thinking of building custom (any data) real-time dashboards as a side hustle and I've been stuck on how to get the data to a dashboard.

Do the clients have a database where everything is stored? If so how to get that data to my dashboard?

What are the technologies used in building dashboards? Should I use OpenSearch, Graylog, Datadog, Microsoft Power BI, Python...? Where can you host these dashboards so the clients can see it?

If anyone has any experience in this I would love to hear how you did it, thanks in advance for the answers :).

  👤 squeegee_scream Accepted Answer ✓
I recommend the dashboard be “dumb” and only be responsible for

1. Receiving streaming data in either csv or json 2. Allowing user to select which columns are displayed

Then you don’t need to concern yourself so much with where the data comes from, either their database, or splunk, or etc