Again a banana attached to a gorilla and a whole jungle. Why can't we have a dashboard that just displays whatever is in its configured data store, and a data s

Again a banana attached to a gorilla and a whole jungle. Why can't we have a dashboard that just displays whatever is in its configured data store, and a data store filled with whatever is collected about the environment? It's always another dashboard-with-datastore-and-monitoring-agent in one complete, impossible to separate package, which is effectively a crippled attempt at building a monitoring system? (I wrote all three separate things, dashboard, data store, and monitoring agent, and I am using them in production, so I know it's a doable plan.)