Creating and managing a dashboard

In this section, we'll cover creating and managing a dashboard. You're going to learn what a dashboard is, and how to create one.

Let's go to JIRA and take a look at some dashboards.

In our projects, we have the First Project and the Second Project; on the left-hand side, we can see Dashboards. JIRA comes with a System dashboard by default, so we can take a look at that in the following screenshot:

System dashboard—this is your default landing page

We can see an Activity Stream and some other items, but what we want to do is create our own dashboard; so, in the upper right-hand corner, click on the ellipses and go to Create dashboard. You'll see some options, where you can name the dashboard My Great Dashboard and give it a description—All the good things. We can start from a Blank dashboard, a System dashboard...