grafana-dashboard
Create professional Grafana dashboards with visualizations, templating, and alerts. Use when building monitoring dashboards, creating data visualizations, or setting up operational insights.
What this skill does
# Grafana Dashboard
## Table of Contents
- [Overview](#overview)
- [When to Use](#when-to-use)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Reference Guides](#reference-guides)
- [Best Practices](#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:
```json
{
"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](references/grafana-dashboard-json.md) | Grafana Dashboard JSON |
| [Grafana Provisioning Configuration](references/grafana-provisioning-configuration.md) | Grafana Provisioning Configuration |
| [Grafana Alert Configuration](references/grafana-alert-configuration.md) | Grafana Alert Configuration |
| [Grafana API Client](references/grafana-api-client.md) | Grafana API Client |
| [Docker Compose Setup](references/docker-compose-setup.md) | 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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