If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether your investments are paying off.

Dashboards are the tool people turn to in both cases. They take a constant stream of signals, like requests, latencies, status codes, and errors and turn them into a view your team can act on. With the right dashboard, you can respond quickly when something breaks and tell a clear story when it matters.

The challenge is that not every team cares about the same signals. Ops care about latency and error trends, product managers want adoption and usage, and security teams look for traffic patterns.

Another challenge comes with federated teams: platform engineers are often expected to give each team a starting point by setting up the right dashboards for them. Managing this for many teams across large organizations quickly becomes unsustainable.

That is why we built Custom Dashboards, and today, we’re excited to share they're now generally available in Kong Konnect. With templates, global filters, role-based access, automation through APIs and Terraform, and built-in search, this release makes dashboards easy to get started with, adaptive to new needs, simple to share securely, and gives every team the view they need.

Customer Dashboards key highlights

This GA release adds several features that make dashboards easier to create, automate, and share securely.

• You can now start from best-practice dashboard templates that surface key API performance and operational signals without any manual setup.

• Global filters let you easily apply filters across an entire dashboard. They can be temporary for exploration or preset by admins to provide set views and enforce access boundaries.
• A new dashboard viewer role makes it simple to give teams read-only access to specific dashboards. Viewers can still apply temporary filters but can't change or remove presets, which keeps sensitive content protected.
• For platform engineers, dashboard creation and management can now be automated through APIs and Terraform. This makes it possible to create, update, and version dashboards as code and roll them out consistently across teams.

• And finally, dashboards are easier to find. With support for type:dashboard in the Konnect Global Search Bar, you can locate what you need right away.

Why it matters

Custom Dashboards give every team the view they need without extra overhead. From fast troubleshooting to executive reporting, from templates to automation, this release makes it simpler to turn API data into the insights that drive decisions.

Get started with your first Custom Dashboard

Now is the best time to explore Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect. 

If you’re a Konnect customer, Custom Dashboards are available for your organization today. Log in to your Konnect organization, navigate to Analytics → Dashboards, start with a template, or create your own from scratch. If you’re new to Kong, you can start by signing up for Kong Konnect for free!

And as always, we’d love your feedback. It helps us keep improving.