Who can use this feature

Available on Pro and Enterprise plans

The Data Over Time widget shows how values on your board change over time, using historical data. Track trends, spot patterns, and understand how your work has evolved rather than relying on a single point-in-time snapshot.

What is the Data Over Time widget?

The Data Over Time widget visualizes historical changes to your board data on a chart. It's available on both dashboards and board views.

Use it to understand trends over time instead of a single snapshot, track progress against goals across days, weeks, or months, and identify patterns in workload, status changes, or numeric KPIs. Segment your data by a supported column to compare groups side by side, and on board views, drill down into any data point to see the exact items behind it.

For example, a team wants to see how their task volume by priority has changed over the past several months. Using the Data Over Time widget, they set the Y-axis to Count Items, grouped by the Priority column, and the X-axis to a custom timeframe with monthly intervals. The resulting chart shows how many tasks were Critical, High, Medium, Low, or Best Effort each month, making it easy to spot growing pressure on higher-priority work as volume increases.

Add the Data Over Time widget

To add the widget to a board view or dashboard, select + Add widget and choose Data Over Time. 

Choose your chart type

Select a chart type for your data, such as a bar, line, or column chart.

Which chart type should I use?

• Line graph: Best for tracking trends and rate of change over time. Each group appears as its own line, making it easy to compare how different segments are moving relative to each other.
• Bar graph: Best for seeing total volume at each point in time, broken down by group. The full bar height shows the total for that month, and each segment shows how much each group contributed.
• Column graph: Shows the same breakdown as a bar graph, oriented horizontally by time period. Useful when you want to compare the values within each period side by side.

Set your X-axis

The X-axis always represents time. Choose a timeframe (1W, 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, or a custom range) and an interval (daily, weekly, or monthly) to control how your data points are grouped. The chart displays a maximum of 31 data points, so wider ranges are aggregated to fit this limit.

Set your Y-axis

The Y-axis shows either a numeric column value or a count of items. Select a column or Count items, then choose whether to group the data (for example, by status or priority) to compare segments on the same chart.

Drill down into your data

When you view the widget on a board view, you can select a data point to drill down and see the recorded state of your items at that point in time. You can see the value at that point and which items contributed to it.

Additional settings

• Customize: Edit the color, name, and order of each label in your chart to match your preferences or brand colors.
   
• Benchmark lines: Add a benchmark line with a set number value and label to compare your data against a fixed target. You can add more than one benchmark line and assign each a different color.
   
• Groups: Choose which of your board's groups to include in the chart. Select the top group to use your board's main grouping, or select specific groups to narrow what's shown.

How is this different from the Chart Widget?

The Chart Widget's line graph can plot values across a date column already on your board, showing trends based on the data as it exists today.

The Data Over Time widget is different. It automatically tracks and stores your board's historical values over time, independent of any date column. This means you can see what your data looked like at past points in time, not just how it's organized today. On board views, you can also drill down into the exact items that made up a past data point.

Limitations

Data Over Time widget limitations

• Drill down into item-level state is only available on board views, not dashboards
• If a board has not been modified recently, tracking may not have started. Make an update to the board to begin tracking.
• Newly created boards won't show data until the start of the next day, since the widget records data as of midnight each day.
• Subitem data is not tracked historically. The widget only tracks data from parent-level items.
• Multi-level subitems are not supported. The widget can't be added to a board view for a board that uses multi-level subitems. On a dashboard, if one of the connected boards uses multi-level subitems, the widget excludes that board's data from the chart.
• The chart displays a maximum of 31 data points. Date ranges spanning more than 31 days are aggregated to fit this limit
• Only Numbers, People, Status, and Dropdown columns are tracked. Other column types, such as Formula or Mirror, are not supported

FAQs

What is the Data Over Time widget used for?

It shows how your board data changes over time, so you can track trends and progress instead of only seeing a current snapshot.

Can I use the Data Over Time widget on a dashboard?

Yes. The widget is available on both dashboards and board views, though drilldown is only available on board views.

Why can't I see historical data older than a few months?

Data retention depends on your plan. Pro retains up to 6 months, and Enterprise retains up to 12 months.

Why isn't my board showing historical data yet?

If a board has not been modified recently, tracking may not have started. Make an update to the board to begin tracking and backfilling historical data.

Which columns can I use with this widget?

The Y-axis supports Numbers columns or Count Items. You can group by Status, People, or Dropdown columns.