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Executive Summary Dashboard Overview

  1. Purpose: To give leadership a clear and concise view of the system’s overall health, performance, and operational efficiency.
  2. Metrics Displayed:
    • System Health: Overall status of critical systems and services.
    • Uptime and Availability: Percentage metrics showing the time systems have been up and available for use.
    • SLA Compliance: Percentage adherence to service-level agreements, highlighting any deviations.
    • Operational Efficiency: Metrics such as incident resolution times, number of incidents per quarter, and resource optimization insights.

Key Principles for Effective Dashboards

  1. Tailored Information: The dashboard should be customized to highlight high-level KPIs for leadership, avoiding technical complexity.
  2. Real-Time Updates: Automated and continuously updated data to ensure that executives always see the most current status.
  3. Accessibility: Should be accessible on multiple devices to ensure leadership can stay informed on-the-go.
  4. Interactive Elements: Allow filtering by time frame or service, if necessary, to provide deeper insights.

Additional Dashboards for a Holistic View

  1. Internal Operations Dashboard:
    • Audience: Technical Teams
    • Focus: Detailed metrics like resource utilization, system errors, and network performance.
  2. Customer Status Page:
    • Audience: Customers and External Stakeholders
    • Focus: Service uptime, current incidents, and resolution times, presented in a simple and transparent format.

Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Monitoring Specialist:
    • Develops and maintains all dashboards.
    • Ensures metrics are relevant and dashboards are updated in real-time.
  2. Operations Manager:
    • Oversees leadership dashboards, ensuring they reflect the overall business impact.
    • Manages customer-facing dashboards to ensure clear and transparent communication.
  3. Customer Success Manager:
    • Ensures customer-facing dashboards are accurate and build trust.
    • Uses dashboards to communicate incident updates.
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