An effective dashboard should focus on a limited number of metrics that support decisions rather than displaying every piece of available data. Depending on the organization, this might include preventive maintenance completion, open work orders, repeat issues, room downtime, equipment failure rates, maintenance cost, guest complaints, and assets approaching replacement.

Leadership should also be able to move from high-level metrics to the underlying property, room, equipment category, or asset when further investigation is needed.

Most importantly, dashboard metrics should have clearly defined calculation methods so that departments and properties interpret them consistently.