> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://canopy.wnstn.space/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dashboards Overview: Cano Analytics Data Visualization

> Explore how Cano Analytics dashboards bring your event data to life with real-time charts, flexible layouts, and powerful sharing tools.

Dashboards in Cano Analytics are your command center for understanding what's happening across your product in real time. Each dashboard is a fully customizable canvas where you combine charts, metric cards, and filters to answer the questions that matter most to your team — from high-level KPIs to granular user behavior breakdowns. Whether you're monitoring a product launch or sharing weekly metrics with stakeholders, dashboards give you a single place to visualize, explore, and act on your data.

## Feature Highlights

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  <Card title="Drag-and-Drop Layout" icon="arrows-up-down-left-right">
    Rearrange and resize every chart on your dashboard with a simple drag-and-drop interface. No coding or configuration files required.
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  <Card title="Real-Time Data" icon="bolt">
    Charts refresh automatically so you always see the latest events flowing in from your application — ideal for live launches and incident monitoring.
  </Card>

  <Card title="10+ Chart Types" icon="chart-mixed">
    Choose from line charts, bar charts, funnels, retention grids, pie charts, metric cards, tables, and more to match your data to the right visualization.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Scheduled Snapshots" icon="calendar-clock">
    Set up automated email reports that deliver a dashboard snapshot to your team daily or weekly, keeping everyone aligned without manual effort.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Public Sharing Links" icon="link">
    Generate a read-only public URL for any dashboard so external stakeholders can view your data without needing a Cano account.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Custom Date Ranges" icon="calendar-range">
    Apply relative ranges (last 7 days, last 30 days) or pick exact start and end dates to focus every chart on exactly the time window you care about.
  </Card>
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## Dashboard Anatomy

Understanding the layout of a Cano dashboard helps you navigate and configure them faster.

### Header

The header runs across the top of every dashboard and contains three key controls:

* **Dashboard name** — click the name at any time to rename the dashboard inline.
* **Date range picker** — sets a global date range that overrides the default range on all charts. Individual charts can still be pinned to their own ranges if needed.
* **Refresh button** — manually triggers a data refresh across all charts. The timestamp next to the button shows when data was last fetched.

### Chart Grid

The chart grid is the main canvas below the header. Charts snap to an invisible grid, making it easy to align them into clean rows and columns. You can drag charts to reorder them, resize them by dragging their bottom-right corner, and delete or edit them from the three-dot menu on each chart card.

### Filter Bar

The filter bar sits between the header and the chart grid. Filters applied here are scoped to the entire dashboard — for example, filtering by `country = US` will restrict every chart on the page to events from US users. Filters can be stacked and toggled on or off without permanently changing the underlying chart configuration.

## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Create a Dashboard" icon="plus" href="/docs/dashboards/creating-dashboards">
    Learn how to build a new dashboard from scratch or start from a template.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Charts & Widgets" icon="chart-bar" href="/docs/dashboards/charts-and-widgets">
    Explore every chart type available and learn how to configure your query builder.
  </Card>
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