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Designing an AdOps Dashboard That Actually Protects Revenue

DDana Brooks

2026-01-14

3 min read

Dashboards must be actionable. This guide lists the essential metrics, data sources and alerting rules that high-performing adops teams track in 2026.

Hook: Dashboards that signal action save revenue

An effective dashboard highlights problems early and points to remediation — this is how adops dashboards evolved in 2026.

Must-have widgets

CPM & fill-rate trend with geo breakdown.
P95 auction latency and tail distribution.
Edge cache hit rate and hot creative counts.
Creative fetch error rates and CDN error codes.

Alert rules

CPM drop >8% across top inventories for 10 minutes.
P95 latency increase above baseline for 5 minutes.
Cache hit rate drop >10% in a region.

Reference readings

Closing

Tie dashboard signals to runbooks and automate remediation where possible — that’s how you protect revenue in 2026.

Dana Brooks

Features Editor

Senior editor and content strategist. Writing about technology, design, and the future of digital media. Follow along for deep dives into the industry's moving parts.