A status-specific control would support max, min, targets, warning levels, etc and not be bound only to percentages as I see in the screenshots of http://www.telerik.com/support/demos or in the other dashboard sample. 
An example of this is:
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jet/jetCookbook.html?component=home&demo=rootVisualizations_childGauge