Historical look-back now available for Embrace Custom Dashboards

Now, we’ve made our Custom Dashboards even more useful for trendspotting by enhancing how our data backend pulls metrics to populate our customers’ dashboards. 

We’re now using the Embrace Metrics API — one of our Data Forwarding tools that customers have been relying on to manually query both standard and custom metrics from our data stores — to power Custom Dashboards. 

This backend change to the platform means that users can now take advantage of a historical look-back feature when creating their own Custom Dashboards, giving them the freedom to explore long-term trends across the metrics captured by the Metrics API, which are among the most foundational health and performance signals. 

With historical look-back, dashboard users can now explore metrics from different time ranges beyond their standard data-retention period. For customers building a dashboard based on standard metrics, the look-back window extends as far back as 15-months. For those wanting to build dashboards based on custom metrics, the look-back window goes as far back as when they initially created the specific custom metric. 

With this feature update, engineers and their entire mobile orgs will be better able to understand historical trends in their app’s performance, spot patterns, and explore even subtle anomalies with the help of powerful filters and dimensions.

To learn more about the data that’s now available for historical look-back and how it can help you track your app’s health over time, check out our Metrics API docs.