# Adding A New Dashboard

## **OVERVIEW**

Dashboards are a set of [Widgets ](/dashboards/adding-a-new-widget.md)with a customizable view. 

You can create:

* Custom dashboards with your own Data Sources to visualize real-time metrics **in a single place**.
* Dashboards with a **selected date range** in order to watch your **progress** on your *daily stand-up*s and/or *sprint review*s/*retros*.
* ***Public Dashboards*** that everyone see in organization.
* ***Private Dashboards*** to share them with your team members or managers.
* Quality monitoring dashboards to **get visibility into the key metrics**, such as *time to merge, technical debt, issues, test coverage, avg. response time, error rate, open bugs*...

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## **ADDING A NEW DASHBOARD** 

1\. Open the Oobeya home page.

2\. Click the **"New Dashboard"** button. 

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3\. Select **"Create Custom Dashboard"** and fill in the form. 

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4\. You can set the **privacy of Dashboards** as *Public* or *Private*. 

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5\. Click **"Add"** button, then your Dashboard is ready to use.

## **WHAT'S NEXT?**:dart: 

* [Adding a new Widget to your Dashboard](https://qa-dashboard.user.com/knowledge-base/articles/20/update/20/%7B%%20kb_article_url%2019%20%%7D)


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