grafana-dashboards

name	grafana-dashboards
description	Create and manage production-ready Grafana dashboards for comprehensive system observability.
category	Creative & Media
source	antigravity
tags	["node","api","ai","template","design","cro"]
url	https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/grafana-dashboards

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

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  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

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "API Monitoring",
    "tags": ["api", "production"],
    "timezone": "browser",
    "refresh": "30s",
    "panels": [
      {
        "title": "Request Rate",
        "type": "graph",
        "targets": [
          {
            "expr": "sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (service)",
            "legendFormat": "{{service}}"
          }
        ],
        "gridPos": {"x": 0,      
      
      
         
         
         
          
             
             
          
        
         
           
            
                  
                
                  
               
            
          
        
                
      
      
         
         
         
          
             
             
          
        
                
      
    
  

Reference: See assets/api-dashboard.json

Panel Types

1. Stat Panel (Single Value)

{
  "type": "stat",
  "title": "Total Requests",
  "targets": [{
    "expr": "sum(http_requests_total)"
  }],
  "options": {
    "reduceOptions": {
      "values": false,
      "calcs": ["lastNotNull"]
    },
    "orientation": "auto",
    "textMode": "auto",
    "colorMode": "value"
  },
  "fieldConfig": {
    "defaults": {
      "thresholds": 
         
         
             
             
             
        
      
    
  

2. Time Series Graph

{
  "type": "graph",
  "title": "CPU Usage",
  "targets": [{
    "expr": "100 - (avg by (instance) (rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode=\"idle\"}[5m])) * 100)"
  }],
  "yaxes": [
    {"format": "percent", "max": 100, "min": 0},
    {"format": "short"}
  ]
}

3. Table Panel

{
  "type": "table",
  "title": "Service Status",
  "targets": [{
    "expr": "up",
    "format": "table",
    "instant": true
  }],
  "transformations": [
    {
      "id": "organize",
      "options": {
        "excludeByName": {"Time": true},
        "indexByName": {},
        "renameByName": {
          "instance": "Instance"
           
           
        
      
    
  

4. Heatmap

{
  "type": "heatmap",
  "title": "Latency Heatmap",
  "targets": [{
    "expr": "sum(rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
    "format": "heatmap"
  }],
  "dataFormat": "tsbuckets",
  "yAxis": {
    "format": "s"
  }
}

Variables

Query Variables

{
  "templating": {
    "list": [
      {
        "name": "namespace",
        "type": "query",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "query": "label_values(kube_pod_info, namespace)",
        "refresh": 1,
        "multi": false
      },
      {
        "name": "service",
        "type": "query",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "query": "label_values(kube_service_i