Most of the dashboards above refresh on a five-minute cron. To a person looking at one, that is indistinguishable from real-time, and it costs roughly nothing to run.

The ones that charge for true real-time charge for what real-time costs — cloud CPU, instrumented pipelines, on-call engineering. The space between the two tiers is where most engineering wastes itself.

If you want to talk about a city, a region, or a question, the contact card is in the personal section above. Tap it.