Geckoboard

Learn how to build dashboards that help your team visualize KPIs in real time.

Getting started with Geckoboard

Build, display, and customize your dashboards.

Build your dashboard

Steps to create a new dashboard from scratch.

Add a new dashboard

Create a new copy of the original dashboard.

Duplicate a dashboard

Learn how 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 permanently 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 for a dashboard

Fix the 'Geckoboard failed to start' error with a hard refresh or by clearing your browser cache

Dashboard error: Geckoboard failed to start

Learn why you might see a 404 error on a dashboard, sharing link or Send to TV screen.

404 errors in Geckoboard

Learn how to move, resize, and group widgets together on your dashboard.

Arrange 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

Navigate from one Geckoboard dashboard to another using a combination of share links and the Text widget.

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, try a Text widget.

Alternative to using iFrames to embed dashboard content

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

Copy a widget to another dashboard

Learn how to effectively design a dashboard layout that clearly communicates your key metrics.

Planning your dashboard design and layout

Partial data may be displayed if your data is still importing.

Widgets may display partial data during the initial import process

Learn how to organize your Geckoboard dashboards with folders. Create, manage, and structure folders by team, project, or custom groups.

Organize dashboards with folders

Learn how to use templated dashboards to build consistent dashboards with the same widget configuration, each filtered differently.

How to use templated dashboards

Building dashboards

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

Types of visualizations in Geckoboard

Learn how to visualize your progress toward a specific target over time.

Add goals to Number widgets

Add status indicators to number and gauge widgets to spot when something important happens to one of your key metrics.

Create visual alerts with Status indicators

Learn how to add comparison metrics to your Line chart, Column chart, or Table visualization.

Add multiple metrics within the same widget for comparison

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 show specific data within your visualizations and communicate your metrics clearly.

Use filters to refine data shown within your widgets

Use Split by within your Line or Column chart to segment your data into groups within a single visualization.

Break up data within a single chart using Split by

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 changes the account 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 message when no data has yet been collected that the widget can use to build its visualization.

Widget message: 'No data to visualize'

We don't yet support combining and aggregating data from different data sources and widgets.

Can I compare data from different data sources?

We do not currently support stacked column or bar charts. We recommend using a column chart to show multiple series of data.

Can I display stacked charts?

Legacy widgets and/or data sources may be removed at any time and for various reasons.

Widget config message: 'The widget is no longer supported'

When to use a number vs a gauge viz

Building data visualizations

Depending on your use case, basic white labelling is possible with custom-themed dashboards with specific sharing permissions.

Can Geckoboard be white labeled?

Display a logo in the footer of your dashboard.

Upload a dashboard logo

Customize the look and feel of your dashboards to match your company brand or team colors.

Change the colors of your dashboard

Learn how to customize your dashboard colors, upload a logo and more.

Customize the look of your dashboard

Learn how to create widgets that display data from Custom fields or Custom properties.

Create metrics from Custom fields and Custom properties

Learn about font size behavior in Geckoboard widgets.

Understanding font size options in Geckoboard

Customizing dashboards

Display an uploaded image, with instructions on how to host your images with hosting providers such as Imgur or Dropbox.

Add images using the Image widget

Text widgets support Markdown, a simple markup language for formatting text.

Display formatted text using the Text widget

Clock widget displays the time and date in either 24 or 12 hour format, using your local computer's clock as a reference.

Display the time and date on a dashboard using the Clock widget

Steps to build a QR Code widget that generates a QR code from a URL.

Display a QR code on your dashboard

Use the RSS or Atom Feed widget to display items a list of feed content.

Add an RSS/Atom Feed widget to your dashboard

Drill down into metrics on your dashboard without having to leave Geckoboard.

Use Interactive view and Source data to investigate the data behind your widgets

Steps to create a Google Alert and display updates on a RSS/Atom Feed widget.

Display Google Alerts on a RSS/Atom Feed widget

Learn how pairing our Image widget with tools like PagePixels can schedule screenshots of your ratings.

Display customer satisfaction scores using Image widgets

Learn the key concepts of how to structure your data and push it to Geckoboard using CSV widgets.

Build a dashboard using data from a CSV file

Learn how to cycle through multiple images within a single image widget.

Cycle through images with File Roulette and Dropbox

Text widgets on legacy dashboard layouts support HTML tags and attributes that can be used to style and format text.

Supported HTML tags and attributes for legacy Text widgets

Learn how to assign an owner who can verify the status of your dashboard to ensure your team can rely on the data.

Dashboard ownership and verification

Dashboard tools

How to display generated graphics and graphics that display instantly on your Geckoboard dashboard using Bannerbear.

Display generated graphics on your dashboard using Bannerbear

How to schedule regular screenshots of your chosen URL to be displayed on your dashboard using Bannerbear's API or Zapier.

Display regular web page screen grabs on your dashboard using Bannerbear

Bannerbear and Geckoboard

How to get data from an external API into Geckoboard.

Guide to using Custom Widgets

Learn how to use a Google Sheets script that pushes data directly to the Custom Widgets API.

Push your Google Sheets data to Custom Widgets

Steps to build a custom pie chart and geo mapping widget.

Guide to using Custom Widgets with Excel

Learn how to use Node.js to get data from a datasource into your Custom Widgets.

Guide to Custom Widgets using Node.js

Learn about Gekoq, a Node.js module that simplifies sending data to your Geckoboard Push method Custom Widgets.

Node.js module for Push method widgets

Learn about Gekkota and how it can help build a custom integration for Geckoboard's custom Push method widgets.

Template for building custom integrations in Node.js

Learn why you might see this error message when pushing data onto Geckoboard.

Custom Widgets error: 'widget does not exist'

Steps to take if your Custom Widget times out.

Custom Widget polling timeout error

Learn why you may be seeing this error message when using Highcharts.

Highcharts error: 'Chart data could not be parsed'

Display weekly NPS, a feed of recent comments, and customize views to focus on different NPS score values.

Display AskNicely data on your dashboard using Custom Widgets

Custom Widgets

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