Name: Dashboard Builder
Author: affaan-m

Use this when the task is to build a dashboard people can operate from.

The goal is not "show every metric." The goal is to answer:

is it healthy?
where is the bottleneck?
what changed?
what action should someone take?

When to Use

"Build a Kafka monitoring dashboard"
"Create a Grafana dashboard for Elasticsearch"
"Make a SigNoz dashboard for this service"
"Turn this metrics list into a real operational dashboard"

Guardrails

do not start from visual layout; start from operator questions
do not include every available metric just because it exists
do not mix health, throughput, and resource panels without structure
do not ship panels without titles, units, and sane thresholds

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

Organize around:

Use this when the task is to build a dashboard people can operate from.

The goal is not "show every metric." The goal is to answer:

is it healthy?
where is the bottleneck?
what changed?
what action should someone take?

When to Use

"Build a Kafka monitoring dashboard"
"Create a Grafana dashboard for Elasticsearch"
"Make a SigNoz dashboard for this service"
"Turn this metrics list into a real operational dashboard"

Guardrails

do not start from visual layout; start from operator questions
do not include every available metric just because it exists
do not mix health, throughput, and resource panels without structure
do not ship panels without titles, units, and sane thresholds

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

Organize around:

Dashboard Builder

When to Use

Guardrails

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

Dashboard Builder

When to Use

Guardrails

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

2. Study the target platform schema

3. Build the minimum useful board

4. Cut vanity panels

Example Panel Sets

Elasticsearch

Kafka

API gateway / ingress

Quality Checklist

Things Mac

Trello

Nextjs Turbopack

Jira Integration

Production Scheduling

Cost Aware Llm Pipeline

Dashboard Builder

When to Use

Guardrails

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

Dashboard Builder

When to Use

Guardrails

Workflow

1. Define the operating questions

2. Study the target platform schema

3. Build the minimum useful board

4. Cut vanity panels

Example Panel Sets

Elasticsearch

Kafka

API gateway / ingress

Quality Checklist

Related Skills

Things Mac

Trello

Nextjs Turbopack

Jira Integration

Production Scheduling

Cost Aware Llm Pipeline