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Explore Dashboards

Explore dashboards are interactive, slice-and-dice interfaces that transform your metrics view data into powerful visualizations for data exploration and analysis. Built on top of a single metrics view, they provide an intuitive way for users to interact with your data through real-time filtering, drilling, and comparison capabilities.

Creating an Explore Dashboard in Rill Developer​

Using the Code Editor​

In the Explore dashboard YAML, you can define dashboard level parameters to customize the capabilities. For a full list, see our explore dashboard reference doc.

  • metrics_view - A single metrics view that powers the dashboard
  • measures - * Which measures to include or exclude from the metrics view; using a wildcard will include all.
  • dimensions - * Which dimensions to include or exclude from the metrics view; using a wildcard will include all.

In some cases, a specific dashboard will not need to include all of the underlying metrics view's measures and/or dimensions. In this case, you can use the measures and dimensions parameters to filter these out. Rill supports providing a single value, list, or regex to filter out unnecessary measures and dimensions.

type: explore

title: Title of your Explore Dashboard
description: a description for your explore dashboard
metrics_view: my_metricsview

dimensions:
    expr: "^public_.*$"
measures:
  - total_downloads
  - total_impressions 

defaults:
    comparison_mode: time
    time_range: P3M
  measures:
    - total_downloads
    - total_impressions 
  dimensions:
    - show_name
    - season
    - program_name

Using AI​

In various locations throughout the platform, you have the opportunity to fast-track your dashboard creation via AI. This feature creates the underlying metrics view with AI and generates your explore.yaml similar to the example above with the required components.

Directly from your connector's tables:


From an ingested model:


Preview a Dashboard in Rill Developer​

Once a dashboard is ready to preview, before deploying to Rill Cloud, you can preview the dashboard in Rill Developer.


Setting Up Dashboard Access​

If you are setting up dashboard policies, it is recommended to preview and test the dashboard before deploying. This option will be available for testing if you have set up access policies at the project level, metrics view level, or dashboard level.