Dashboard guidelines for optimal performance

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Each dashboard is a collection of panels that help you assess weather risks at a specific location. Panels can include an interactive map or an hourly or daily forecast. Panels might also include alerting panels that alert you to conditions for a specified threshold for both current and forecasted weather.

The following items are general tips to ensure that you experience optimal performance and loading times.

Overall guidelines

  • It is advised that a dashboard for any location contains no more than 20 individual panels.
  • The more panels added to a dashboard, the more data that needs to be loaded and refreshed.
  • Too many panels might lead to over-alerting of users. Over-alerting reduces the value of an alert and numbs users to future alerts.

The following items are tips related to the panel types.

Interactive map panel

  • Only one interactive map per dashboard is advised.
  • Because this panel is interactive, you can easily change layers and overlays to view the information that you need for a specific weather situation.
  • Adding multiple map panels to view different conditions at the same time might slow performance of the whole dashboard.

Lightning alert panel

  • Multiple lightning alert panels are not required because a panel can be configured with up to 3 ranges for proximity alerts.

Hourly or daily forecast panel

  • Multiple hourly or daily alert panels are not required because a dashboard delivers data for a specific location.
  • The panel toggles easily between hourly and daily information.

Current condition panel

  • Multiple condition panels are not required.

Current condition alert panel

  • Use this panel to avoid over-alerting and to be informed when something actually happened, such as the temperature dropping below freezing. These alerts are designed for action.
  • Because this panel is configurable, you can include more than one of these panels on the dashboard.
  • Select weather parameters and thresholds that require business actions and decisions for your operations.

Forecast alert panel

  • This panel is designed for planning purposes. For example, you might operate bucket trucks, and for safety reasons, these trucks do not operate if winds are over 20 mph. You can set a forecast panel to 72 hours to determine whether work needs to be avoided for specific periods during this time.
  • Because this panel is configurable, you can include more than one of these panels on the dashboard. Like all alert panels, try to keep the number of alerts to a minimum to avoid over-alerting users.