If you’re setting up monitoring and want dashboards engineers actually use (not pretty charts that don’t help during incidents), this guide walks through Prometheus + Grafana fundamentals and focuses on building dashboards that are actionable for on-call, troubleshooting, and capacity planning:
https://lnkd.in/eY9K4GFUThe best dashboards follow a simple rule: start with questions engineers ask, then design panels that answer them fast. (Grafana’s own guidance and fundamentals align with this mindset.)
✅ What to include in engineer-grade dashboards
Golden signals / RED: latency, traffic, errors, saturation
Service health: availability, SLO burn, error-budget signals
Infra & Kubernetes: CPU/memory, node pressure, pod restarts, throttling
Dependencies: DB/cache/queue latency + error rates
Alerts that matter: fewer, higher-signal alerts tied to impact
✅ Prometheus + Grafana done right
Prometheus collects time-series metrics; Grafana visualizes them into dashboards and alerts
Use clear panels, consistent units, meaningful thresholds, and avoid “noisy” dashboards
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