Dashboard data representing a digital dashboard generated by a dashboard editor may be received. The digital dashboard may include a data widget to display metric data related to a metric. The data widget may be associated with a data source to receive the metric data from the data source. In response to the dashboard data representing the digital dashboard being loaded by a dashboard viewer for display, the metric data may be sent from the data source to the dashboard viewer so that the dashboard viewer is to display the metric data in the data widget.