dashboard-generator

name	dashboard-generator
description	Generate monitoring dashboards for Grafana and DataDog with alert integration
allowed-tools	["Bash","Read","Write","Glob"]
graph	{"domains":["domain:software-engineering"],"specializations":["specialization:software-architecture"],"skillAreas":["skill-area:metrics-dashboarding","skill-area:observability-instrumentation"],"roles":["role:sre","role:architect"],"topics":["topic:observability-driven-development"]}

Dashboard Generator Skill

Overview

Generates monitoring dashboards for Grafana and DataDog from JSON/YAML definitions with panel configuration and alert rule integration.

Capabilities

• Generate Grafana dashboards from JSON/YAML
• DataDog dashboard creation
• Panel configuration and templates
• Alert rule integration
• Variable templating
• Annotation support
• Dashboard versioning
• Row and panel layouts

Target Processes

• observability-implementation
• performance-optimization
• resilience-patterns

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["dashboards"],
  "properties": {
    "dashboards": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string" },
          "type": { "type": "string", "enum": ["service", "infrastructure", "business", "slo"] },
          "metrics": { "type": "array" },
          "panels": { "type": "array" }
        }
      }
    },
    "platform": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["grafana", "datadog", "cloudwatch"],
      "default": "grafana"
    },
    "options": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "datasource": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "prometheus"
        },
        "refreshInterval": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "30s"
        },
        "timeRange": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "6h"
        },
        "includeAlerts": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": true
        },
        "variables": {
          "type": "array"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "dashboards": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string" },
          "uid": { "type": "string" },
          "json": { "type": "object" },
          "path": { "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    
     
       
       
         
         
              
              
              
        
      
    
     
       
    
  

Usage Example

{
  kind: 'skill',
  skill: {
    name: 'dashboard-generator',
    context: {
      dashboards: [
        {
          name: 'API Service Overview',
          type: 'service',
          metrics: ['http_requests_total', 'http_request_duration_seconds'],
          panels: [
            { type: 'graph', title: 'Request Rate' },
            { type: 'stat', title: 'Error Rate' }
          ]
        }
      ],
      platform: 'grafana',
      options: {
        datasource: 'prometheus',
        includeAlerts: true
      }
    }
  }
}