Product updates

Number visualization improvements

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the effectiveness of your dashboards, today we’ve made some improvements to our number visualization…

• The visualization now makes much smarter use of space. For landscape widgets (twice as wide as they are tall), labels and secondary visualizations are now positioned on the right. Font sizes also now decrease in fixed increments to make sure your data fits the available space – ideal for displaying a large number of digits and a long prefix or suffix.
• Until today there were some subtle differences between integrations in how the number visualization handled currencies and decimal places. All integrations now use the latest version of the visualization.

Python library for Datasets

We’ve released a new Python client library to make it much easier to get up and running with our datasets API.

Create and manage Dashboard Loops more easily

Dashboard Loops are a great way to display several dashboards on a single screen.

For example, you might want to display some company-wide metrics alongside your team’s existing dashboard, have a project-specific dashboard you need to keep an eye on in addition to your day-to-day metrics, or have several teams who share a single screen.

A Dashboard Loop cycles through two or more dashboards you select from your Geckoboard account, pausing on each dashboard for an amount of time you choose. This allows you to display much more information on a screen without having to squeeze all your metrics onto a single dashboard.

Previously, building a Dashboard Loop involved digging into your account settings and negotiating a tricky set of menu options. This update makes it much easier to create, manage and adjust the timing of Dashboard Loops from right within the main dashboard interface.

In addition, you can also now effortlessly change the ordering of dashboards in a loop just by dragging and dropping your dashboards into the order you want.

Easily share Dashboard Loops with your team using a secure sharing link or by selecting your loop within our screens menu to broadcast it instantly onto your TV or large screen.

To give it a spin, click the new Loops option at the top of your screen the next time you log in to Geckoboard!

Smarter Google Analytics Number and Leaderboard widgets

We’ve changed the way Google Analytics Number and Leaderboard widgets are set up.

Number widget: We’ve consolidated several number widgets into a single widget that allows you to choose from a much wider range of GA metrics to display on your dashboard. We’ve also added pre-built filters that allow you to easily fine-tune your widget, available in a simple drop-down.

Leaderboard widget: In similar fashion to our GA number widget, we’ve consolidated all our GA list widgets into a single leaderboard that offers access to many more metrics from Google Analytics. Pre-built filters have also been added, and we’ve made some tweaks to the design to make it easier to read the values.

Using the older versions of these two widgets? Don’t worry: these will continue to work and you can still copy and edit them.

Revamped user permissions and Admin area

Today we’re launching an update that adds two new user types that give you more control over who has access to specific dashboards and features within Geckoboard. We’ve also given our Admin area a major overhaul to make important account-related tasks more straightforward.

Read more detail about these changes here or explore the new layout by clicking ‘Admin’ whilst logged in!

Easily send data from MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases to Geckoboard

We’ve made it much easier for developers to pull data from a database and visualize it in Geckoboard using our Datasets API. SQL-Dataset is a command line app that makes integrating your MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database with Geckoboard as simple as filling out a config file, removing the need to work with client libraries or write bespoke code.

Get started with SQL-Dataset here and start sending metrics from your database in minutes!

Larger widget titles

Our dashboards are designed for the wall of your office, to share key metrics with your whole team. To make widget titles easier to read from a distance we’ve increased their size on all new dashboards.

The size of titles on existing dashboards will remain unchanged, but you can switch over to the larger titles by checking “Use large widget titles” in your dashboard’s settings.

Easily pair a TV and remotely manage your dashboards

We’ve just launched a new, much easier way to display your dashboards on a TV! When logged in, the new ‘Screens’ option at the top of your account now allows you to securely pair a screen without having to type in a long sharing link into your TV. Once paired, you can now instantly change which dashboard from your account is displayed on your screen without having to type in a new sharing link or visit your screen.

For anyone using one of our recommended devices for running a browser on a TV we’ve also launched a Chrome OS app that makes it much easier to boot directly into your dashboards, removing the need to reconfigure your TV each and every morning.

Read more about what’s new in our launch post, or click ‘Screens’ the next time you log into Geckoboard to try it out.

Financial metrics from Stripe

Stripe, as one of the market leaders in online payments, needs no introduction. Our new Stripe integration lets you show metrics relating to your charges, subscriptions, and balance.

Financial metrics from ChartMogul

We’ve just added a new integration with ChartMogul. ChartMogul help you to make sense of your subscription business, computing a load of key metrics such as MRR, ARR, and churn for a wide range of billing systems. Our integration lets you pull those useful metrics straight onto your dashboard as either a number or a line chart.

Learn more in their post here.