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Create a Grafana Dashboard

Prerequisites

  • Approved Grafana editor access.
  • Identified dashboard owner, device/service role, data source, and source-control repository.
  • Verified metrics and labels in Grafana Explore across representative regions.

Planning

Organize the dashboard from broad to detailed:

  1. Scope, variables, and metric freshness.
  2. Customer/service-impact signals.
  3. Resource and platform health.
  4. Dependencies and adjacent systems.
  5. Diagnostic detail.

Creating the Dashboard

Create the dashboard in the approved WxCDI folder. Follow existing naming conventions, add an owner and description, and avoid hard-coded customer/device values.

Adding Panels

  • Use rates for counters and windows that match scrape intervals.
  • Define units, legends, thresholds, and no-data behavior.
  • Keep queries bounded and test at expected cardinality.
  • Link high-level panels to diagnostic views when practical.

Saving & Sharing

Store dashboard JSON in the managed dashboard repository and deploy through pull request. Verify variables, time zones, links, no-data behavior, and performance before adding the dashboard link to the device audit/page.