Agent skill · design visual · aiskillstore
grafana-dashboards
Create and manage production-ready Grafana dashboards for comprehensive system observability.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific JSON configurations and best practices for creating Grafana dashboards that enhance observability and monitoring capabilities.
What it needs
Requires grafana installed locally. About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Grafana Dashboards Create and manage production-ready Grafana dashboards for comprehensive system observability. Do not use this skill when The task is unrelated to grafana dashboards You need a different domain or tool outside this scope Instructions Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs. Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes. Provide actionable steps and verification. If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md. Purpose Design effective Grafana dashboards for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and business metrics. Use this skill when Visualize Prometheus metrics Create custom dashboards Implement SLO dashboards Monitor infrastructure Track business KPIs Dashboard Design Principles 1. Hierarchy of Information 2. RED Method (Services) Rate - Requests per second Errors - Error rate Duration - Latency/response time 3. USE Method (Resources) Utilization - % time resource is busy Saturation - Queue length/wait time Errors - Error count Dashboard Structure API Monitoring Dashboard Reference: See assets/api-dashboard.json Panel Types 1. Stat Panel (Single Value) 2. Time Series Graph 3. Table Panel 4. Heatmap Variables Query Variables Use Variables in Queries Alerts in Dashboards Dashboard Provisioning dashboards.yml: Common Dashboard Patterns Infrastructure Dashboard Key Panels: CPU utilization per node Memory usage per node Disk I/O Network traffic Pod count by namespace Node status Reference: See assets/infrastructure-dashboard.json Database Dashboard Key Panels: Queries per second Connection pool usage Query latency (P50, P95, P99) Active connections Database size Replication lag Slow queries Reference: See assets/database-dashboard.json Application Dashboard Key Panels: Request rate Error rate Response time (percentiles) Active users/sessions Cache hit rate Queue length Best Practices 1. Start with templates (Grafana community dashboards) 2. Use consistent naming for panels and variables 3. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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