# Retire events nothing consumes, along with the dashboards reading them

Events emitted for a dashboard nobody opens, removed on consumption evidence.

Category: Analytics and tracking
Source: https://letsship.ai/use-cases/retire-unconsumed-events
Published: 2026-08-25

## Goal

Remove events that nothing consumes, along with their unused dashboards.

## Acceptance criteria

- Consumption evidence covering a full quarter is attached
- Dashboards and alerts reading them are checked, not only queries
- Events are deprecated before removal, with a stated window
- Payload size reduction is recorded

## What lands as proof

Consumption evidence over a quarter, so removal is based on data rather than on nobody objecting.

## Prompt

Copy this to an agent to open the ticket:

```text
Create a Linear issue in my team and assign it to the SHIP agent.

Title: Retire the unconsumed {events}

Description: Remove events that nothing consumes, along with their unused dashboards.

Acceptance criteria:
- Consumption evidence covering a full quarter is attached
- Dashboards and alerts reading them are checked, not only queries
- Events are deprecated before removal, with a stated window
- Payload size reduction is recorded

Before you create the issue, pull query and dashboard usage for this repository's events and list those with no consumers. Replace {events}.
```

## Questions

### What does the agent actually change?

The ticket is scoped to one outcome: remove events that nothing consumes, along with their unused dashboards. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.

### How do I know the work is done?

The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means consumption evidence attached before removal, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.

### How much oversight does this need?

The run stops for the plan, and the review bar is raised afterwards so that smaller suggestions block the merge too, not only serious findings.