--- title: What you can ask about sidebar_label: What you can ask about toc_max_heading_level: 3 doc_id: e5a7b2c6-0f81-4d4e-a261-7a1e9f5b3d48 description: >- Get real-time visibility into team activity, deployments, costs, and security. Ask questions in plain language, get dashboards backed by live data, and use the AI chat to analyze the results. keywords: - management insights - team velocity - deployment metrics - cost analysis - security posture - dashboard analysis --- # What you can ask about Ask a question in the chat panel and nullplatform generates a dashboard backed by live data. The assistant understands your organization's hierarchy and only shows what you have access to. Here's what teams typically build with it. ## Team activity and velocity Track what your teams are shipping: builds, deployments, parameters, and contributor activity over any time range. Try *"Show me all team activity for the last 4 weeks: deploys, builds, and parameters"*. Team velocity dashboard showing commits, deploys, builds and parameters over 4 weeks ## Manager scorecards Get a per-manager view of engineering output: commits, applications worked on, production deployments, and success rates. Try *"Give me the weekly scorecard for each technical manager"*. Manager scorecard with per-manager metrics and success rates ## Deployment health Monitor deployment frequency, success rates, rollbacks, and lead times across your organization. Try *"Show deployment success rate by namespace for the last 30 days"*. Deployment health dashboard showing success rates by namespace ## Cost and resource analysis Understand where your infrastructure spend is going and where you can optimize. Try *"Show me applications that are over-provisioned"*. Cost and resource analysis dashboard with savings opportunities ## Security posture Track vulnerability status, scan coverage, and remediation velocity. Try *"Show a heatmap of security and cost action items across all accounts"*. Risk and cost map showing security hotspots across the organization If you're after something else, just ask. The assistant queries the same data that powers the nullplatform [Data Lake](/docs/data-lake/): deployments, builds, scopes, parameters, applications, action items, and more. If you need raw access or want to join nullplatform data with your own sources, the Data Lake lets you query it directly via SQL. ## Analyze a dashboard Any dashboard you own also works as a starting point for deeper analysis. Open it, click the **AI chat** icon, and ask about the data you see. The assistant reads every widget on the dashboard, always with live numbers rather than a snapshot from when it was created, and responds with conclusions and suggested next steps. Ask it to summarize what matters (*"Give me a short list of the key things I should focus on right now, and why"*), flag anomalies (*"Anything unusual in the last 7 days?"*), compare (*"How does production compare to staging in terms of failures?"*), or recommend actions (*"What should we prioritize fixing based on this dashboard?"*). AI chat analyzing a published dashboard with trend insights :::note The AI chat is only available on dashboards you own. Predefined dashboards and dashboards shared by other team members are view-only. ::: ## Tips for better results - **Be specific about time ranges**: "last 7 days" and "this quarter" produce different dashboards - **Reference entities by name**: "the payments namespace" or "checkout-service" gives the assistant precise context - **Start broad, then refine**: ask "Show deployment activity this week", then follow up with "Break that down by team" ## From question to shared dashboard Every dashboard you create here can be [saved, published, and shared](./dashboard-builder.md#saving-and-publishing) with your organization. A question you ask once can become a recurring dashboard that your entire leadership team accesses from the Insights sidebar.