Geckoboard

Richard Ingram

Build, display, share and customize your dashboards.

Build your dashboard

Steps to create a new dashboard from scratch.

Add a new dashboard

A much-requested feature, but not currently possible in Geckoboard.

Copy a dashboard

Steps to remove a dashboard from your account.

Delete a dashboard

Steps to add and configure a new dashboard widget.

Add a dashboard widget

Steps to create a duplicate copy of a widget on your dashboard.

Duplicate a dashboard widget

Steps to remove a widget from your dashboard.

Delete a dashboard widget

The footer clock uses your computer or device's clock and time zone as a reference.

Set the time on the dashboard footer clock

We recommend aligning your dashboard's timezone to where the majority of its viewers are based.

Set the location and timezone on a dashboard

A hard refresh or clearing your browser's cache usually resolves the issue.

Dashboard error: 'Geckoboard failed to start'

Whatever the cause of the 404 error we can help guide you through the right steps to regain access.

404 errors in Geckoboard

Learn how to use drag and drop to move and group widgets.

Arrange widgets on a dashboard

Learn how to change the size of individual and grouped widgets.

Resize widgets on a dashboard

Learn how to add titles and labels to widgets, including how to combine them when grouping widgets.

Add widget titles and labels

Using a combination of share links and the text widget, you can navigate from one dashboard to another.

Switch between dashboards using links

A trick to promote a dashboard in the list if you have several on your account.

Reorder multiple dashboards

To embed images use an Image widget; for text and other HTML content try a Text widget.

Alternative to using iFrames to embed dashboard content

Building dashboards

Learn about the different visualizations you can use to display your data.

Types of visualizations in Geckoboard

Widgets will error when permissions on the existing connection are revoked – often after the connected account holder leaves their role.

Migrate to a new connection after existing connection's permissions revoked

Learn how to visualize your progress towards a particular target over time.

Add goals to Number widgets

Help your viewers know if a number’s good or bad with status indicators.

Add status indicators to number and gauge widgets

Learn how to add a comparison metric to your line chart.

Compare different metrics within the same line chart

Learn how to how add additional metrics to tables.

Add more columns to table widgets

Learn how to use the Number formatting menu to round numbers and add units to numbers.

Set the format of widget numbers

Use a number widget to display a single number with optional goal values and status indicators.

Guide to the number visualization

Use a gauge to quickly see a metric in comparison to defined minimum and maximum values.

Guide to the gauge visualization

Use a line chart to track changes over time, using equal intervals of time between each data point.

Guide to the line chart visualization

Use a column chart to display vertical categorical data.

Guide to the column chart visualization

Use a bar chart to display horizontal categorical data.

Guide to the bar chart visualization

Use a leaderboard to display where people rank in relation to their peers.

Guide to the leaderboard visualization

Learn how to use filters to only include the data you want in your visualizations.

Use filter results to refine your data

Learn how to break up your data when using line or column charts.

Use split by to break up data within the same chart

Learn how to add emoji to a widget using Mac OS and Windows.

Add emoji to dashboard widgets

Pie charts can be misleading and hard to interpret, making them rarely the best choice for visualizing your data.

Why we don't support pie charts

By rounding down your progress goal values we avoid showing, say, 9.99 as reaching your goal of 10.

Why Number widget progress goal values round down, not up

Check that your browser's locale is set to the correct country.

Decimal and thousands separators not displaying correctly on widgets

Legacy data sources may be removed at any time. There may be a new version available.

Widget config message: 'There’s a new version of this integration available'

This error can occur when someone makes a change to the connection powering a widget, such as the password.

Widget error: 'We were unable to build your widget'

The data sources we integrate with might not support every combination of metric, filter or time-period.

Widget error: 'These metrics and filters are not compatible'

You may see this error when there isn't yet any data that the widget can use to build its visualization.

Widget error: 'no data to visualize'

Building data visualizations

Get up and running quickly using a cheap PC connected to your screen.

Recommended devices for displaying dashboards on wall-mounted screens

Use Send to TV to pair a device to your Geckoboard account and it's ready to display your dashboards.

Use Send to TV to display a Geckoboard dashboard on a screen

To use our latest dashboard layout if you're using a column layout you'll first need to convert it to a container layout.

Prepare a columned dashboard for the container layout

Install our kiosk app to automatically load your dashboard on a Windows OS device.

Use a Windows OS device to display a dashboard on a screen

Install our kiosk script to automatically load your dashboard on a Raspberry Pi.

Use a Raspberry Pi to display a dashboard on a screen

Learn how to use our Send to TV feature to connect Chrome OS devices.

Use a Chrome OS device to display a dashboard on a screen

Learn how to cast a dashboard to a screen using a Chromecast and Apple TV.

Use casting devices to display a dashboard on a screen

Alternative option for displaying your Geckoboard dashboard alongside external content.

Display non-Geckoboard content in a dashboard loop

Create a loop of several dashboards that can be shared as a link or displayed on a TV.

Use loops to cycle multiple dashboards on a single screen

Change displayed dashboards, add new screens and give your screens a memorable name.

Manage connected screens

Find your loop URL or manage existing loops.

Manage dashboard loops

Add Geckoboard to your Android and iPhone home screens.

View a dashboard on a mobile phone or tablet

Remote refresh feature will update dashboards using a share link and Send to TV.

Update displayed dashboards with latest changes

Refresh remote dashboards when making changes to dashboards displayed on several screens, or on devices without a connected keyboard.

Refresh remote dashboards

Smart TV web browsers are generally under powered to display Geckoboard dashboards.

Displaying a Geckoboard dashboard on a smart TV

Displaying dashboards

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be easily bookmarked, embedded, or shared directly with others.

Share a dashboard with share links

Schedule regular snapshots of your dashboards to post to Slack so everyone can keep track of key data, wherever they are.

Send scheduled dashboard screenshots to Slack

Schedule screenshots of your dashboards to be automatically emailed out to your contacts, on a schedule of your choice.

Email scheduled dashboard screenshots

Ways to share PDF snapshots of your dashboard.

Download a dashboard as a PDF

Sharing dashboards

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in your everyday business tools.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard in websites and tools

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in Confluence.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard in Confluence

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in Microsoft Teams.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard in a Microsoft Teams channel

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in Miro.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard to a Miro board

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in Monday.com.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard to Monday.com

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in Notion.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard in Notion

Create a link to your live dashboard that can be embedded in the ticket view in Zendesk.

Embed a Geckoboard dashboard in Zendesk's ticket sidebar

Embedding dashboards

Display your logo in the bottom left-hand corner of your dashboard.

Upload a dashboard logo