HealthCan it be trusted and acted on?
Zombie dashboard
Still published, no longer alive: nobody opens it, the data stopped refreshing, and nobody owns it.
Click a widget to see its data
Regional revenue
Owner: J. Mercer (left in March)
Last refreshed 14 Feb 2026Share
Revenue this month
$3.9M
as of 14 Feb
Revenue vs target
101%
as of 14 Feb
Active customers
3,180
as of 14 Feb
Revenue by month
Revenue by region
EMEA$1.5M
Americas$1.4M
APAC$0.8M
The data model behind it
Monthly revenue snapshotThe model still looks intact, but fact_revenue_monthly and dim_region stopped loading in February. Nothing throws an error: the dashboard keeps showing February, and the subscription email keeps going out.
- Tables read
- 3 of 4
- Joins
- 2
- Fact type
- Periodic snapshot (monthly aggregate)
- Grain
- One row per month, region and segment
- Refresh
- Monthly, after the financial close
Widgets
Highlighted: every table this view reads. Pick a widget to isolate its query.
Where it sits in the taxonomy
Fails the first check: it is not used, or its data is no longer fresh. It may once have been a perfectly good dashboard; whatever it shows today, it informs nobody.
- In the last quarter, has anyone opened it and has its data refreshed?No
- Zombie dashboard
At a glance
- Check failed
- In use and fresh
- Symptom
- Last refreshed months ago, no recent views
- Root cause
- Owner left, pipeline broke, or the question went away
- Test
- Check views and the last refresh over the past 90 days
Not to be confused with
- Vanity dashboard
- A vanity dashboard is watched but useless. A zombie is not watched at all, or no longer updated.
- Sanity dashboard
- A sanity dashboard has an owner and monitored refreshes. A zombie has lost both.
How to recognise it
- A last-refreshed date far in the past
- Views falling to zero
- The listed owner has left
How to fix it
- Monitor usage and freshness; archive what nobody opens
- Give every dashboard an owner and a review date
- Alert on failed loads instead of letting them fail silently