DashboardDecay: Metric Freshness Monitor
Automatically detects stale data sources and broken metric definitions in BI dashboards, alerting teams before decision-makers rely on outdated numbers.
The Problem
Teams using Tableau, Looker, or Metabase often don't realize their dashboards are pulling from outdated data pipelines or have broken field definitions until a critical business decision is made on false information. There's no easy way to audit which metrics are actually fresh vs. which ones silently broke when upstream data changed.
Target Audience
Data analysts and BI leads at mid-market companies (100-2000 employees) who own dashboards but don't have dedicated data engineering teams to validate pipeline health.
Why Now?
More companies are hiring first/second data hires who own dashboards without observability expertise, and BI tool APIs have matured to make this tractable for solo builders.
What's Missing
Existing data observability tools focus on pipelines (dbt, Airflow) not dashboards themselves; dashboard creators have no native way to know if their metrics are stale.
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