Revolutionizing Data Team Efficiency: Gradient’s New Projects Dashboard

In the fast-paced world of data engineering, staying on top of your projects, costs, and performance is crucial. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the latest updates to Gradient’s Projects page. These enhancements are designed to give both engineering executives and data engineers visibility and control over their data operations.

Sync has always been committed to helping data teams optimize costs, meet SLAs, and boost engineering productivity. With these new features, we’re taking that commitment to the next level. Let’s dive into what’s new and how it can transform your data team’s efficiency.

1. High-level metrics and KPIs

The cornerstone of our update is the new high-level metrics and KPIs dashboard. This at-a-glance view provides critical insights into your data operations:

• Total Core Hours: Track your consumption with precision. This metric helps you keep track of your compute resource consumption across all projects managed by Gradient.

• Total spend: Keep your budget in check with a clear view of your overall expenditure. No more surprises at the end of the month.

• Total recommendations applied: See the impact of Gradient’s  suggestions. This metric showcases how many of our ML-driven recommendations have been implemented, directly correlating to improved efficiency.

• Cost savings: We’ve introduced a dual perspective on financial impact:
  • Optimization savings: See the exact dollar amount  you’re saving through Gradient’s optimizations.
  • Engineering hours saved: Quantify the productivity boost by tracking the time saved for your engineers. These are the hours your engineers regain using Gradient, which they can now spend on core aspects of your business. 

• Total number of projects: Get a bird’s-eye view of your operations. This metric tells you how many jobs you’re optimizing with Gradient.

• SLA %: Ensure you’re meeting business needs with our runtime SLA performance tracker. The percentage displayed gives you an immediate understanding of your job runtimes and their service-level agreement compliance rate.

These metrics provide engineering executives with the insights they need for strategic decision-making, while giving data engineers a comprehensive view of their environment’s performance.

2. Interactive charts for informed decision-making

Numbers tell a story, but charts bring that story to life. Our new interactive charts offer insights into your data operations that you can share with management:

• Spend ($) trends: Identify cost patterns and anomalies over time. This chart helps you spot unexpected spikes in spending or validate the impact of cost-saving initiatives.

• Core hours utilization: Get a better understanding of your business’ compute infrastructure needs. This chart shows you how your compute consumption is changing over time, helping you plan better for the future.

• SLA %: Ensure consistent service quality by tracking your SLA performance over time. Quickly spot any dips in performance and take corrective action.

You can easily adjust the time range and aggregation interval to get precisely the view you need. Whether you’re looking at daily trends for the past week, or monthly patterns over the year, the data adapts to your needs.

3. Enhanced search and filter capabilities

In a large scale data environment, being able to quickly drill down to a specific job is paramount. That’s why we’ve introduced enhanced search and filter capabilities:

• Quick project Search: Easily locate specific projects by name or part of a name. No more scrolling through long lists to find what you need.

• Advanced filters: Apply filters based on project type, status, runtime, or cost. This feature allows for focused analysis, helping you identify high-cost projects or those approaching SLA thresholds.

• Improved team productivity: These search and filter capabilities aren’t just convenient—they’re time-savers. Data engineers can now navigate their project landscape more efficiently, leading to overall improved team productivity.

Here’s what it looks like:

With advanced filters exposed:

4. Empowering both executives and engineers

This new Projects Dashboard is designed to add value across your organization:

For engineering executives:

• ROI visualization: Clearly see the return on your Gradient investment through cost savings and efficiency metrics, such as cost savings and engineering hours saved.

• Strategic decision support: Use trend data and high-level KPIs to inform strategic decisions about consumption, resource allocation, and project prioritization.

For data engineers:

• See the impact of your optimizations: We’re taking the guess-work out of cluster optimization. Gradient enables you to easily see the effects of every recommendation made.

• Simplified job management: Quickly find, assess, and manage projects with our enhanced search and filter capabilities.

• Time-saving features: Spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on high-value engineering work.

Conclusion: Elevate your data operations with Gradient

We’re helping organizations of all sizes to reduce compute costs while maintaining service-level agreement runtimes. In addition, data teams work more efficiently and effectively with Gradient. The new Projects page represents our commitment to you, and we’d love to hear what you think!

We invite you to experience the power of Gradient for yourself. Sign up for Gradient today and see how it can transform your data operations, drive down costs, and boost your team’s productivity. Our free tier includes 10K free core hours to get you started.

If you’re past that point, or would rather speak with an engineer about your data use-case, feel free to book a personalized demo to see these features in action. Your journey to optimized, cost-effective data operations starts here.