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The 90/90 rule for the dashboard dumpster
Data teams can reduce dashboard bloat by enforcing a 90/90 lifecycle rule: archive after 90 days of inactivity and delete after another 90.
What: Dashboard sprawl costs organizations compute and maintenance overhead. The 90/90 rule helps clear out dead artifacts by automatically archiving unused dashboards after 90 days and deleting them if they remain unvisited for an additional 90-day grace period.
Takeaway: Audit your business intelligence platform and implement an automated archiving script for any dashboard that has received zero views in the last 90 days.
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Dashboard sprawl is creating 3 major costs for data organizations: low trust, wasted warehouse compute, and dead artifacts, with one example showing hundreds of dashboards but only dozens opened in a quarter—roughly 90% unused. A practical mitigation is a 90/90 lifecycle rule: archive dashboards after 90 days of no views, then delete them after another 90 if no one responds.
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