10.1.4 · Skill in Product observability
Dashboards
Shared views of the metrics that matter.
A good dashboard answers a specific question at a glance, such as whether the service is healthy. Too many dashboards mean nobody looks at any of them. Product and system metrics side by side help connect cause and effect.
Resources
1- bookGo deeperMonitoring (The Site Reliability Workbook, chapter 4) ↗Google SRE · 20 min
Practical monitoring setups, from choosing metrics to moving from an alert to its cause.
Tools
1- ToolOpen sourceGrafana
Open-source dashboards for metrics, logs and traces from almost any data source.