Monitoring best practices
You might be tempted to put as much information in a dashboard as you can. There are so many metrics, so why not visualize them? Right? Wrong! Too much data makes important information hard to find. It makes us ignore what we see since too much of it is noise.
What you really need is to have a quick glance of the central dashboard and deduce in an instant whether there is anything that might require your attention. If there is something to be fixed or adjusted, you can use more specialized Grafana dashboards or ad-hoc queries in Prometheus to drill into details.
Create the central dashboard with just enough information to fit a screen and provide a good overview of the system. Further on, create additional dashboards ...
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