Manage dashboards

The Assistant can help you find, understand, create, and edit Grafana dashboards. Whether you need to visualize a new service or fix an existing panel, the Assistant can handle the heavy lifting of query writing and configuration.

Find and understand dashboards

You can ask the Assistant to locate dashboards relevant to a specific service or team, and explain what they show. This is helpful when you’re exploring a new environment or need to understand complex visualizations.

Find relevant dashboards

Locate dashboards by service or team name to get started quickly.

Find dashboards related to the payment-service.

Understand visualizations

Get an explanation of complex panels to understand what the data represents.

Explain what the Transaction rate panel is showing.

Identify data sources

Check which data source is powering a specific visualization.

What data source is the Latency panel using?

Create a new dashboard

The Assistant can scaffold a complete dashboard based on your requirements. Describe the goal of the dashboard and the metrics you want to include, and the Assistant will generate the panels for you.

Describe the dashboard

Tell the Assistant what you want to build.

Create a dashboard called ‘Checkout Health’ with panels for error rate, p95 latency, and request volume.

Specify data sources

Mention the data sources you want to use to ensure accurate queries.

Use @prometheus-prod for metrics and @loki-prod for logs.

Review and save

The Assistant will direct you to the new dashboard. Review the panels and save the dashboard.

Edit and improve dashboards

You can modify existing dashboards to better fit your needs. The Assistant can help you update queries, change visualizations, and organize the layout.