Dashboards have gained popularity as a quick way to monitor metrics in manufacturing, business, healthcare, and even in election polling. After facing challenges with low unit response rates and Total Quantity Response Rates (TQRRs) for the 2007 Census of Governments: Finance Component, we decided to develop a dashboard that would monitor response in the very early stages of processing. The initial dashboard developed for the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances attempts to yield compliant unit response rates for each state by type of government, compliant TQRRs for each state by key item by type of government, and an adequate number of responses and acceptable response rate in each imputation cell. This dashboard has been used as a prototype for monitoring response for other surveys of governmental units. Initial dashboards have been developed for the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances , Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll, and Quarterly Survey of Property Tax Collections. This paper presents the conceptual and operational challenges that we faced in constructing each dashboard.