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Suppose we want to provide our product department with a Redash usage dashboard (based on real Redash usage data), that consists of several metrics:

The preceding diagram is a Usage chart. Usage can be any form of interaction with Redash. This chart shows us the total amount of interactions with Redash per day over a 30-day period:

In the preceding chart, we can see that the different events have been broken down into types, which allows us to gain a better understanding of the main use cases of Redash:

Along with a further breakout of events by Country (gives us a distribution of events in different countries), using IP2Location transformation. In addition to this, there are the new signups and the total user count metrics.

Every single one of these metrics can tell us something valuable, but when combined with a single dashboard (as you can see in the following diagram), a metric can tell us a whole different kind of story (which we will cover in upcoming chapters):