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Dashboard Insights

Overview

Dashboard Insights uses AI to automatically analyze dashboard data, identify abnormal fluctuations, hidden relationships, and business opportunities with one click, and provide deep, actionable insights beyond visualization alone.

Applicable Scenarios

In enterprise analytics scenarios, Dashboard Insights uses AI to uncover and present data value more deeply, overcoming the static limitations of traditional visual dashboards and providing automated, actionable decision support. Typical use cases include the following:

ScenarioBusiness Pain PointHow Dashboard Insights HelpsBusiness Value
More efficient operations analysis
  • Operations review meetings rely on manual interpretation and can take hours
  • Report quality depends heavily on analysts, and key conclusions may be missed or biased
  • Automatically generates decision reports with key metric interpretation, anomaly alerts, and attribution analysis
  • Quickly produces structured conclusions and shortens the decision chain
  • Reduces report preparation time by 80%
  • Reduces human bias in analysis
  • Improves the timeliness of strategic decisions
  • Frontline business enablement
  • Frontline users such as store managers often lack data analysis skills and cannot extract useful information from complex dashboards
  • Traditional data pushes lack interpretation and clear action guidance
  • Intelligently generates data summary + attribution analysis + action recommendations
  • Supports automated daily or weekly delivery with recommendations through WeCom, DingTalk, and Feishu
  • Improves issue localization efficiency for store performance by 60%
  • Automatically generates executable optimization plans
  • Bridges the gap between data and execution
  • Intelligent system enhancement
  • Existing business systems have weak analytics capabilities and high redevelopment cost
  • Lack of intelligent insight capabilities
  • Outputs Smart Insights through APIs and embeds them into business systems or applications
  • Enables intelligent system upgrades with zero code
  • Deeply integrates with enterprise workflows
  • Prerequisites

    • Upgrade to version 7.0 or later to use Dashboard Insights, and to version 7.3 or later to configure multiple insight logics.

      Note

      A matching hotfix version is also required for Dashboard Insights to work properly. If you are unsure whether your current version supports it, contact your Guandata sales representative or customer success manager.

    • License activation and LLM service configuration have been completed.

    Dashboard Editors

    Enable Dashboard Insights

    1. On the dashboard home page, click Edit to enter the dashboard editing page.

    2. Click the Smart Insights entry. The Smart Insights panel opens on the right.

    3. Click Settings or Enable to enter the Smart Insights configuration page.

    4. Configure items such as Insight Prompts and LLM Service Selection, then turn on the Smart Insights switch.

    Configure Insight Prompts

    Dashboard editors can provide background knowledge for the LLM to generate insights. The quality of the prompt description directly affects the accuracy and usefulness of the generated insights.

    For guidance on writing better prompts, see Prompt Writing Best Practices.

    Configure Output Requirements

    Define the writing rules for the insight report. The system provides a general default configuration, which can be used as-is or fine-tuned slightly.

    Configure Insight Logic

    Feature description

    Insight logic defines the analytical framework used by Smart Insights. It is recommended that you fine-tune it for your business needs. The system provides a default insight logic that you can edit directly.

    No.Configuration ItemDescription
    1Drag / Expand Handle
  • Click to expand or collapse the detailed content of the current insight logic
  • Press and drag to reorder multiple insight logics. The first one is the default insight logic. If the viewer does not manually switch logic during generation, the system uses the default one
  • 2Edit ButtonClick to rename the insight logic so different analytical frameworks for different scenarios or roles can be distinguished, for example Frontline Insight Logic or Executive Insight Logic
    3PreviewClick to preview the result generated by the current insight logic. Each insight logic supports its own preview
    4ResetRestores the current insight logic to the system default analytical framework
    5Add Insight LogicIf different roles or scenarios require dedicated analytical frameworks, click to add a new insight logic. Up to 5 insight logics are supported
    6DeleteRemoves the currently selected insight logic. The default insight logic cannot be deleted

    Configure Business Knowledge

    Add business knowledge to make Smart Insights fit the real scenario more closely. It is recommended that you customize this carefully and enter dashboard-specific business knowledge. The more precise the background knowledge, the more aligned the generated insight result will be with the actual scenario.

    Preview Insight Results

    While configuring prompts, you can click Preview at any time to see the generated result.

    Note

    The preview uses the default insight logic, which is the logic currently ranked first.

    Select an LLM Service

    Note

    Make sure LLM Service has already been configured in Admin Center > System Integration > LLM Service.

    Select the appropriate LLM as needed. If you do not switch it manually, the system uses the default LLM.

    Publish Dashboard Insights

    1. After finishing prompt and LLM service configuration, turn on the Smart Insights switch and click Save.

    2. Click the dashboard Publish button to publish the current Smart Insights configuration online for dashboard viewers.

    Subscribe to Dashboard Insights

    For subscription details, see Dashboard Insights Subscription.

    Dashboard Viewers

    View Insight Conclusions

    For dashboards with Smart Insights enabled, clicking Smart Insights prompts the LLM to analyze the entire dashboard data in depth. Based on the background knowledge provided by the dashboard editor, it generates concise conclusions and recommendations.

    During generation, users can stop the process at any time.

    Note

    The sidebar used to display Dashboard Insights on desktop supports width adjustment for easier reading.

    View Historical Insight Conclusions

    The system records every generated insight conclusion. Click the button shown below to view the history.

    Note
    • Historical conclusions are recorded separately for each insight logic.
    • Follow-up questions are also included in the history for traceability.

    Switch Insight Logic

    For dashboards with multiple configured insight prompts, users can manually select which insight logic to use when viewing insight results.

    Users can also temporarily define a custom analytical framework through Custom Insight Logic to generate highly personalized reports.

    Interactive Analysis

    Follow-Up Questions

    Enter a question in the dialog box and click Send to ask flexible follow-up questions about the current insight result. Multi-turn conversations are supported to explore the reasons behind the data more deeply.

    Users can stop generation at any time during follow-up analysis.

    Copy

    The output of Smart Insights supports Copy and preserves text formatting such as bold, indentation, and numbered lists.

    Regenerate

    If the generated conclusion is unsatisfactory, click this button to generate it again.

    View Insight Subscriptions

    When a subscription is triggered, recipients receive the message in the configured channel and can directly view the insight conclusion there. For details, see View Dashboard Insights Subscription Results.

    Data Processing Mechanism

    Data Scope

    Dashboard data is extracted for Smart Insights on a what-you-see-is-what-you-get basis, including:

    • visible data under the current filter conditions
    • card data under different tabs

    Dynamic Update Logic

    When filter conditions change or a card is drilled into, the data displayed in the current dashboard changes as well. Click Regenerate to update the insight report.

    Limitations

    • Image cards and external-link cards are not currently supported.

    • Table-type cards provide the first 200 rows of data for analysis.

      If you need to change the number of table rows available for analysis, go to Admin Center > Open Platform > Plugin Management and modify the configuration by creating a plugin. For plugin management operations, see Plugin Management.

      Note

      This configuration takes effect globally and applies to both Dashboard Insights and Card Insights.

      Example: change 200 in the code below to the required number of rows.

    GD.dispatch('config-dashboard-insight-settings', {
    cardDataLimit: 200, // Modify the table row limit here
    })