# Ecosystem Performance API & Dashboard Release #5 (December 22nd)

### Expenses Dashboard monthly update: December 2022

*Thanks for reading the monthly update of the MakerDAO Ecosystem Performance API & Dashboard by the SES Core Unit! Following our [first soft release](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/makerdao-expenses-dashboard-is-live/17591), these monthly updates will provide you with the progress of our continuous work, including new features, bug fixes, and other relevant information per each new iteration. We’re happy to answer your questions here, on our [SES Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/Gr3sDQZv6Y), or SES CU channel in the [MakerDAO Discord](https://discord.com/invite/RBRumCpEDH).*

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*Tl;dr*
The SES team prepared a new release of the Ecosystem API and Dashboard, as well as the Core Unit Budget Tool.

**Last month** we released [the fourth iteration of the dashboard](https://forum.makerdao.com/t/expenses-dashboard-monthly-update-november-2022/19011), featuring:
* Introducing Dashboard User Accounts;
* Developer Experience Improvements;
* Continued support for Core Unit onboarding and reporting.

**This month**, we ... We are pleased to announce the fifth release with the following improvements:
* Introducing Auditor Functionality that will offer better insights into Core Units’ expense reporting state, including status, changes, and other relevant information;
* Improved Developer Experience including more thourough documentation & getting started guides;
* preparations for dashboard support of the Endgame plan, including Project Based Budgeting and MetaDAOs.

**Try it out**
* Visit our dashboard at https://expenses.makerdao.network/
* The GraphQL API can be accessed using [the API Explorer](https://studio.apollographql.com/public/Performance-Dashboard-Prd/explorer?variant=current)
* Download the latest budget tool [here](https://github.com/liberuum/budget-tool/releases).
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## Dashboard Version 0.5 Release
Version 0.5 of the dashboard is now available at https://expenses.makerdao.network/.

**Improved Auditor Functionality**
*Get better insights into Core Units’ expense reporting state, including status, changes, and other relevant information;*

These improvements enable Core Unit Administrators (and where applicable, their Auditors) to:
* Understand the state of the given report including its legacy reporting, status, and comments.
* Finalize the expense report by reviewing the past changes (submitted comments) and changing the status accordingly.

Furthermore, the improvement lets all MakerDAO stakeholders to:
* Understand if the Core Unit is thoroughly evaluated (Auditor info)
* Be informed of any legacy expensing repository of the Core Unit (legacy reporting)
* Keep up with the important updates and activity (CU Activity Feed & global Activity Feed)
* Have full context of what changes happened over time (comments tab).

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**Improved Developer Experience**
*For developers and data analysts to conveniently use the API and the code base.*

This new feature helps more technical usders to understand the code and API data, so that they can contribute to it, or create their projects to fulfill specific needs. As said before, the insights that the dashboard frontend offers don’t have to be limit. Our API and code base are intended as open tools for the creation of other insights and UIs.

With the next version of the Developer Experience feature, we are introducing:
* More advanced code repositories (including up-to-date documentation and release information);
* Getting Started guides for each repo.

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**Sneak peek into Endgame transition preparations**
short text about how the dashboard will grow beyond the transparent analysis platform and become more of an operational DAO tool. Preparations for the support for:
* Project Based Budgeting
* MetaDAOs.

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## What’s next
For the next release, we’re ....:
* Project Based Budgeting;
* Core Unit updates?
* MetaDAOs v1?
* User accounts v2?
* progressing towards web3 dashboard user authentication.

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*Feedback? We’re happy to answer your questions here, on our [SES Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/Gr3sDQZv6Y), or SES CU channel in the [MakerDAO Discord](https://discord.com/invite/RBRumCpEDH).*

*Your SES Dashboard team*

@jordan.jackson @_Jack @liberuum @wouter @C27 and @Lenkla