DevOps & Infrastructure

Grafana Dashboards

Create monitoring dashboards with Grafana for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, and other data sources.

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Overview

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability, providing rich dashboards for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. AI agents can generate Grafana dashboard JSON configurations, create PromQL queries for Prometheus data sources, set up alerting rules, and configure data source connections, all as code that can be version-controlled.

AI coding agents are particularly valuable for Grafana because dashboard JSON is complex and verbose. Instead of manually dragging panels and clicking through the UI, you can describe the metrics you want to visualize and your agent generates the complete dashboard JSON with proper panel types (time series, stat, gauge, table), PromQL queries, thresholds, and layout. The agent can also generate Grafana provisioning configurations for Infrastructure as Code workflows.

For production monitoring, your AI agent can create dashboards for common patterns: RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) for services, USE metrics (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) for infrastructure, and golden signals dashboards for SRE teams. The agent can also configure alert rules with proper notification channels and escalation policies.

Who Is This For?

SRE teams creating monitoring dashboards for production services
DevOps engineers setting up Grafana with Prometheus data sources
Teams implementing alerting rules for key performance indicators
Developers building custom dashboards for application-specific metrics

Installation

Setup for Claude Code

Install Grafana: brew install grafana (macOS) or use Docker image grafana/grafana:latest
Claude Code generates dashboard JSON and provisioning configs

Configuration

# docker-compose.yml for Grafana + Prometheus
services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:latest
    ports: ["3000:3000"]
    volumes:
      - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
      - ./provisioning:/etc/grafana/provisioning
    environment:
      GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
  prometheus:
    image: prom/prometheus:latest
    ports: ["9090:9090"]
    volumes:
      - ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
volumes:
  grafana-data: