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Grafana Dashboards

Creates production-ready Grafana dashboards with proper JSON structure, variable templating, and alert configuration. Follows RED/USE monitoring methodologies and generates complete dashboard configs for APIs, infrastructure, and databases. Includes panel types like time series, heatmaps, and stat panels with correct Prometheus queries and threshold settings. Also handles dashboard provisioning through Terraform and Ansible. Skip this if you just need basic graphs, but it's solid for building comprehensive observability setups that actually work in production environments.

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$ npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill grafana-dashboards --agent claude-code

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Grafana Dashboards

Create and manage production-ready Grafana dashboards for comprehensive system observability.

Purpose

Design effective Grafana dashboards for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and business metrics.

When to Use

  • Visualize Prometheus metrics
  • Create custom dashboards
  • Implement SLO dashboards
  • Monitor infrastructure
  • Track business KPIs

Dashboard Design Principles

1. Hierarchy of Information

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Critical Metrics (Big Numbers)     │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Key Trends (Time Series)           │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Detailed Metrics (Tables/Heatmaps) │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

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

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Repository
github.com/wshobson/agents
Categories
DevOps & CI/CD, Data Science & ML

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