Creating real-time dashboards that are fast, scalable, and capable of handling numerous concurrent users presents significant challenges, as traditional methods often fail due to issues with data freshness and query latency. This tutorial demonstrates how to leverage Redpanda Serverless for data ingestion, Propel's Serverless ClickHouse for data streaming, and Next.js for visualization to overcome these hurdles. Real-time dashboards provide crucial insights across various applications, such as monitoring product usage, optimizing operational efficiency, ensuring system observability, and tracking user engagement. The tutorial walks through building a live dashboard for a fictional SaaS business using these technologies, showcasing their ability to handle large-scale, real-time data processing and visualization. By using Redpanda's streaming capabilities, Propel's serverless infrastructure, and Next.js's frontend framework, developers can create dashboards that offer immediate, actionable insights, enhancing decision-making and improving user experience. The guide emphasizes the benefits of this approach, including scalability, real-time insights, native user experiences, cost-effectiveness, and developer-friendliness.