# New ways to agentically build and edit dashboards

[Sentry](https://yomu.fyi/company/sentry) · Ben Coe, Steve Zegalia · May 14, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Pre-configured monitoring templates often fail to meet organization-specific needs, forcing developers to manually build dashboards widget by widget. Sentry introduced AI-agent-powered dashboard creation and editing in open beta, alongside CLI management tooling and template revisions. Users can prompt an AI chat interface to build or adjust dashboards, duplicate and customize uneditable Sentry-built templates, or execute dashboard commands directly in their terminal. Dashboards leverage issue, tracing, and application metric data across frontend, backend, mobile, and framework-specific views like Next.js and Laravel. Edits made through the UI, CLI, or AI agent are automatically tracked in a revision history that supports one-click rollbacks.

## Context

Sentry previously offered pre-configured Insights pages for common health signals, but teams still resorted to manual dashboard creation because every organization required unique customization that static templates could not satisfy.

## Approach / What changed

Sentry replaced Insights pages with clonable Sentry-built dashboards, added an agentic AI chat interface for automated dashboard generation and editing, and introduced a CLI dashboard command with JSON output to script dashboards alongside application code.

## Takeaways

- Dashboards track changes automatically across UI, agent, and API edits, allowing users to inspect history and revert to prior known-good versions.
- The Sentry CLI dashboard command supports JSON output, enabling terminal-based widget manipulation and integration into CI pipelines or AI coding agents.
- Sentry-built dashboards serve as uneditable templates spanning Web Vitals, backend queries, mobile metrics, Next.js SSR trees, and Laravel views that users can duplicate and modify.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [Monitoring](https://yomu.fyi/topic/monitoring), [Observability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/observability)

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