# Dashboards / Dashboard Sprawl

> "dashboards" (observability layer) is traded against "Dashboard Sprawl" (observability layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Dashboard Sprawl" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:dashboard-sprawl-dashboards`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-dashboard-sprawl-dashboards

## tensions-with

- [Dashboards](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dashboards.md)
- [Dashboard Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/dashboard-sprawl.md)