New Dashboard Notes Feature Lets You Add Notes to Any Insights Dashboard

New Relic Insights, a platform for real-time analytics and data visualization, has introduced a new feature called Dashboard Notes, enhancing the dashboarding and data exploration experience by allowing users to add textual content alongside data charts. This feature enables users to create, add, and edit notes directly on any dashboard using Markdown, a simple formatting syntax, enabling the inclusion of custom content such as text, images, and links. Dashboard Notes offer flexibility for various use cases, such as creating postmortem dashboards, attaching runbook URLs, and adding images or external links. While maintaining privacy by restricting note copying across dashboards or accounts, the feature allows users to expand, edit, and delete notes through an action menu, providing easily accessible context for all dashboard users. Iris Gau, an engineering intern at New Relic, shares insights into her experience with the development of this feature, highlighting the collaborative environment and technical learning at the company.