# grafana-dashboard

Lets your agent write Grafana dashboards: panels, template variables, alerts and provisioning. Handy when you need monitoring up before the next deploy.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 494 installs · ★ 371
- Author: aj-geddes
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-03-04
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## What it does

The skill spells out the JSON shape of a Grafana dashboard: title, tags, refresh interval, panel list and templating variables. Variables come in two flavours here — a datasource picker and a query such as `label_values(requests_total, service)` — so one board can switch between services without editing JSON by hand.

It ships with reference guides under `references/`: dashboard JSON, provisioning configuration, alert configuration, the Grafana API client and a Docker Compose setup. The agent reads the relevant file instead of improvising a config from memory.

A DO/DON'T section is blunt about the usual mistakes: too many panels, refresh set too aggressively, missing datasource wiring, default passwords left in place. Note that the examples assume Prometheus as the datasource — if yours isn't configured yet, start there, because the templating queries and panels have nothing to bind to otherwise.

## Requirements
- Works with: Grafana

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill grafana-dashboard -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/grafana-dashboard/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill grafana-dashboard -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill grafana-dashboard -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts grafana-dashboard
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill grafana-dashboard -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --path skills/grafana-dashboard
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill grafana-dashboard -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-dashboard/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- generate dashboard JSON with panels and variables
- wire up dashboard provisioning from a config file
- define alerts with runbook links
- run Grafana and Prometheus locally via Docker Compose
- call the Grafana API from a script

## Example prompts
- build a Grafana dashboard for service metrics with a service variable and 30s refresh
- add an error-rate alert to this dashboard and link the runbook
- set up Grafana dashboard provisioning in docker-compose

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: grafana-dashboard
description: >
  Create professional Grafana dashboards with visualizations, templating, and
  alerts. Use when building monitoring dashboards, creating data visualizations,
  or setting up operational insights.
---

# Grafana Dashboard

## Table of Contents

- [Overview](#overview)
- [When to Use](#when-to-use)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Reference Guides](#reference-guides)
- [Best Practices](#best-practices)

## Overview

Design and implement comprehensive Grafana dashboards with multiple visualization types, variables, and drill-down capabilities for operational monitoring.

## When to Use

- Creating monitoring dashboards
- Building operational insights
- Visualizing time-series data
- Creating drill-down dashboards
- Sharing metrics with stakeholders

## Quick Start

Minimal working example:

```json
{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "Application Performance",
    "description": "Real-time application metrics",
    "tags": ["production", "performance"],
    "timezone": "UTC",
    "refresh": "30s",
    "templating": {
      "list": [
        {
          "name": "datasource",
          "type": "datasource",
          "datasource": "prometheus"
        },
        {
          "name": "service",
          "type": "query",
          "datasource": "prometheus",
          "query": "label_values(requests_total, service)"
        }
      ]
    },
    "panels": [
      {
        "id": 1,
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
```

## Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the `references/` directory:

| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| [Grafana Dashboard JSON](references/grafana-dashboard-json.md) | Grafana Dashboard JSON |
| [Grafana Provisioning Configuration](references/grafana-provisioning-configuration.md) | Grafana Provisioning Configuration |
| [Grafana Alert Configuration](references/grafana-alert-configuration.md) | Grafana Alert Configuration |
| [Grafana API Client](references/grafana-api-client.md) | Grafana API Client |
| [Docker Compose Setup](references/docker-compose-setup.md) | Docker Compose Setup |

## Best Practices

### ✅ DO

- Use meaningful dashboard titles
- Add documentation panels
- Implement row-based organization
- Use variables for flexibility
- Set appropriate refresh intervals
- Include runbook links in alerts
- Test alerts before deploying
- Use consistent color schemes
- Version control dashboard JSON

### ❌ DON'T

- Overload dashboards with too many panels
- Mix different time ranges without justification
- Create without runbooks
- Ignore alert noise
- Use inconsistent metric naming
- Set refresh too frequently
- Forget to configure datasources
- Leave default passwords
````
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