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# Dashboards
Dashboards are customizable monitoring views that you assemble from widgets. Each dashboard focuses on a specific concern — a particular building, a device group, a compliance metric, or an operational workflow — and displays exactly the data that matters for that context.
Unlike the [overview page](/kilo-iot-server/overview.md), which provides a fixed summary of your deployment, dashboards give you full control over what is displayed and how.
You choose the devices, select the metrics, set the value ranges and thresholds, and organize everything into folders that match your operational structure.
The dashboard system supports folder-based hierarchy, so a multi-site deployment can maintain separate dashboard groups per building, region, or team — all accessible from the sidebar.
## Where dashboards fit in your operations
Dashboards are not limited to desktop use during working hours. They are designed to be deployed wherever operational visibility matters:
* **Operations center wall displays** — Mount a screen showing live facility status across all sites. Shift supervisors see everything at a glance without navigating.
* **Lobby and reception screens** — Display building conditions, energy metrics, or environmental data for visitors and tenants.
* **Factory floor workstations** — Equip production lines with dedicated monitors showing equipment health, vibration data, and throughput.
* **Compliance and regulatory displays** — Cold chain monitoring in pharmaceutical storage, temperature tracking in data centers, humidity control in cleanrooms — always visible, always current.
* **Conference room reviews** — Pull up dashboards during operational meetings to review trends and incidents with the team.
For any of these scenarios, collapse the sidebar to give the dashboard full screen width — hover over the logo area at the top of the sidebar and click the double-chevron. The navigation shrinks to icons only, keeping the data front and center.
## In this section
* [Creating Dashboards](/kilo-iot-server/dashboards/creating-dashboards.md) — Create a dashboard with an icon, name, folder, and description. Edit metadata and delete dashboards.
* [Adding Widgets](/kilo-iot-server/dashboards/adding-widgets.md) — Widget types, edit mode, and per-widget configuration guides for Last data, Chart, Image, Map, and Conditions.
* [Organizing Dashboards](/kilo-iot-server/dashboards/organizing-dashboards.md) — Create folders, reorder dashboards, and structure your views for multi-site management.
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