# Dashboards

> The portfolio at a glance - condition, risk, costs, work volume, lifecycle forecasts, and level-of-service, sliceable by site and system.

Source: https://app.assetlab.ca/docs/asset-management/dashboards

The dashboard is where the registry pays off: live analytics over everything the platform knows, organized into focused tabs instead of one wall of widgets.

## The tabs

| Tab | What it answers |
|---|---|
| **Assets** | How many, where, what condition, what value |
| **Work orders** | Open vs. completed, aging, by priority and assignee |
| **Costs** | O&M spend over time, by site, building, and system class |
| **Budget** | The annual funding envelope and [what's measured against it](/docs/asset-management/budget) |
| **Lifecycle** | What reaches end-of-life, and when - [forecast, Capital Brief, and funding gaps](/docs/asset-management/lifecycle) |
| **Risk** | Risk concentration heat map, top-risk assets, trend |
| **Locations** | Site-by-site and building-by-building comparison |
| **Projects** | Active project status and budget health |
| **Compliance** | What's current, due, and overdue |
| **Contracts** | Coverage and upcoming expirations |
| **Performance** | Team throughput, completion rates, PM compliance |
| **Level of service** | LoS measures against targets ([details](/docs/infrastructure/level-of-service)) |
| **Infrastructure** | Linear-asset condition and value ([details](/docs/infrastructure)) |

Which tabs you see depends on role and plan: **Work orders** and **Performance** are visible from Staff up; the rest - including Projects, Contracts, and Level of service - require Manager or above. Several tabs are additionally plan-gated (Infrastructure, Budget, Projects, Level of service, and the intelligence tabs: Assets, Lifecycle, Risk).

There is no global filter bar - each chart carries its own filters (site, building, time range), and some remember your last selection.

## Reading the key views

- **Condition distribution** - the portfolio histogram. Watch the *shape drift* over quarters, not individual assets.
- **Lifecycle forecast** - replacement value coming due per year, from install dates and useful lives. This is the chart that starts reserve-fund conversations; [Lifecycle & funding](/docs/asset-management/lifecycle) covers it in depth, and the [replacement planner](/docs/projects/replacement-planner) is where those conversations get modeled.
- **Risk concentration** - the CoF × LoF matrix, with drill-through to the assets in each cell.
- **FCI trend** - captured over time per site and building ([how it's computed](/docs/asset-management/risk-and-fci)).

## Snapshots

Key dashboard metrics are captured as **snapshots** by an automatic monthly job - no one has to remember to press a button. Snapshots are retrievable later and via the [API](/docs/reference/rest-api) (`dashboard:read`). Useful for board packages: "as of June 30" stays as of June 30.

## Guided tours

Most dashboard tabs include a built-in guided tour (look for the tour prompt on first visit) that walks through each chart's meaning - useful when rolling the dashboard out to managers who weren't part of the setup.

> [!tip] Right after a big [import](/docs/start/importing-data), the dashboard is your best validation tool: portfolio totals, value by site, and the condition histogram make systematic import errors obvious in seconds.