Technical Overview: Overhauling the Directus Insights Module
Blog post from Directus
The Directus Insights Module offers a no-code analytics dashboard that allows users to quickly build customized insights using a drag-and-drop interface with various panels like Labels, Lists, Metrics, and Time Series. A recent overhaul, initiated by a GitHub pull request, aimed to optimize the dashboard's performance by implementing a single query system, which reduced the issue of hitting rate limiters and improved loading times. This update enabled auto-reloading, real-time WebSockets, and global variables, allowing for enhanced interactivity and user-controlled dynamic dashboards. The Directus team plans to introduce new insight panel types, such as bar charts and pie charts, to enhance the module's functionality further.