How can users visualize application performance over time in Datadog?

Visualizing application performance over time in Datadog is effectively achieved through the use of timeboard dashboards. These dashboards are specifically designed to display metrics over a defined time range, allowing users to analyze trends, spot anomalies, and observe changes in application performance.

Timeboards enable the aggregation and visualization of various performance metrics, such as response times, error rates, and throughput, all plotted against time. This temporal representation is crucial for determining how performance varies, enabling teams to make informed decisions regarding optimizations or troubleshooting.

Other visualization tools, such as pie charts, offer different types of insights, typically suited for representing proportions rather than temporal changes. Similarly, lists and spreadsheet reports lack the dynamic capabilities of timeboards to track and visualize the progression of metrics over time.