Define and design a product metrics dashboard with key metrics, data sources, visualization types, and alert thresholds. Use when creating a metrics dashboard, defining KPIs, setting up product analytics, or building a data monitoring plan.
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Define and design a product metrics dashboard with key metrics, data sources, visualization types, and alert thresholds. Use when creating a metrics dashboard, defining KPIs, setting up product analytics, or building a data monitoring plan.
---name: metrics-dashboard
description: "Define and design a product metrics dashboard with key metrics, data sources, visualization types, and alert thresholds. Use when creating a metrics dashboard, defining KPIs, setting up product analytics, or building a data monitoring plan."
---## Product Metrics Dashboard
Design a comprehensive product metrics dashboard with the right metrics, visualizations, and alert thresholds.
### Context
You are designing a metrics dashboard for **$ARGUMENTS**.
If the user provides files (existing dashboards, analytics data, OKRs, or strategy docs), read them first.
### Domain Context
**Metrics vs KPIs vs NSM**: Metrics = all measurable things. KPIs = a few key quantitative metrics tracked over a longer period. North Star Metric = a single customer-centric KPI that is a leading indicator of business success.
**4 criteria for a good metric** (Ben Yoskovitz, *Lean Analytics*): (1) Understandable โ creates a common language. (2) Comparative โ over time, not a snapshot. (3) Ratio or Rate โ more revealing than whole numbers. (4) Behavior-changing โ the Golden Rule: "If a metric won't change how you behave, it's a bad metric."
**8 metric types**: Vanity vs Actionable (only actionable metrics change behavior), Qualitative vs Quantitative (WHAT vs WHY โ you need both; never stop talking to customers), Exploratory vs Reporting (explore data to uncover unexpected insights), Lagging vs Leading (leading indicators enable faster learning cycles, e.g. customer complaints predict churn).
**5 action steps**: (1) Audit metrics against the 4 good-metric criteria. (2) Update dashboards โ ensure all key metrics are good ones. (3) Identify vanity metrics โ be careful how you use them. (4) Classify leading vs lagging indicators. (5) Pick one problem and dig deep into the data.
For case studies and more detail: [Are You Tracking the Right Metrics?](https://www.productcompass.pm/p/are-you-tracking-the-right-metrics) by Ben Yoskovitz
### Instructions
1. **Identify the metrics framework** โ organize metrics into layers:
**North Star Metric**: The single metric that best captures core value delivery
**Input Metrics** (3-5): The levers that drive the North Star
**Health Metrics**: Guardrails that ensure overall product health
**Business Metrics**: Revenue, cost, and unit economics
| [Name] | [Exact calculation: numerator/denominator, time window] | [Where the data comes from] | [Line chart / Bar / Number / Funnel] | [Goal value] | [When to trigger an alert] |