grafana-dashboard

SKILL.md

Grafana Dashboard

Table of Contents

Overview

When to Use

Quick Start

Reference Guides

Best Practices

Overview

Design and implement comprehensive Grafana dashboards with multiple visualization types, variables, and drill-down capabilities for operational monitoring.

When to Use

Creating monitoring dashboards

Building operational insights

Visualizing time-series data

Creating drill-down dashboards

Sharing metrics with stakeholders

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "Application Performance",
    "description": "Real-time application metrics",
    "tags": ["production", "performance"],
    "timezone": "UTC",
    "refresh": "30s",
    "templating": {
      "list": [
        {
          "name": "datasource",
          "type": "datasource",
          "datasource": "prometheus"
        },
        {
          "name": "service",
          "type": "query",
          "datasource": "prometheus",
          "query": "label_values(requests_total, service)"
        }
      ]
    },
    "panels": [
      {
        "id": 1,
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide
Contents

Grafana Dashboard JSON
Grafana Dashboard JSON

Grafana Provisioning Configuration
Grafana Provisioning Configuration

Grafana Alert Configuration
Grafana Alert Configuration

Grafana API Client
Grafana API Client

Docker Compose Setup
Docker Compose Setup

Best Practices

✅ DO

Use meaningful dashboard titles

Add documentation panels

Implement row-based organization

Use variables for flexibility

Set appropriate refresh intervals

Include runbook links in alerts

Test alerts before deploying

Use consistent color schemes

Version control dashboard JSON

❌ DON'T

Overload dashboards with too many panels

Mix different time ranges without justification

Create without runbooks

Ignore alert noise

Use inconsistent metric naming

Set refresh too frequently

Forget to configure datasources

Leave default passwords

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