A Practical Guide to Dashboarding
summary
Explains a concrete dashboard recipe: capture metrics with StatsD, store with Graphite, visualize in Grafana via a Docker demo on Katacoda. Implements a tiny API that returns 200/500 and timers, builds graphs for rate/error/duration (RED and Google four golden signals), and shows counts as bars and durations as a right-axis line. Cites a production incident with ~78 errors and a Kinesis iterator spike to ~42 that the dashboard surfaces within minutes, enabling a restart fix and later code correction.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to dashboards
- 5:57Service baselines (USE)
- 10:01Four golden signals
- 14:42The RED method
- 16:08Live Grafana demo
- 26:01Building the dashboard
- 40:11Production and real-life use
- 45:38Resources and conclusion
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