# KPI Pulse

> A sparkline KPI card with month-to-date change, year-over-year and goal status

Canonical: https://ext.tableauops.com/knowledge/kit/kpi-pulse
Updated: 2026-10-13
Author: Eric Summers

A sparkline KPI card with month-to-date change, year-over-year and goal status.

It is one of the five Operations extensions, general-purpose charts for operational data: volumes, statuses, hierarchies, durations and headline KPIs. Every one is dual-mode: the same code runs as a viz extension (a custom mark type on a worksheet's Marks card, Tableau 2024.2 and later) or as a dashboard extension that reads a feeder worksheet. Light and dark themes, and a demo mode on sample support-desk data.

## Get it

KPI Pulse is free on Tableau Desktop. Publishing to Tableau Server or Cloud takes an annual license, from $199/yr; see [pricing](/pricing). See it live in its [demo](/kit/demo/kpi-pulse/), on sample data.


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Try it live: See it live — https://ext.tableauops.com/kit/demo/kpi-pulse/