grafana-oss

What problem does it solve?

Grafana configuration, dashboard creation, data source setup, alerting, and RBAC are complex and repetitive for SRE and platform teams, leading to inconsistent dashboards and fragile alerting. This Skill centralizes practical examples, provisioning patterns, query guidance, and configuration snippets to reduce setup time and configuration errors.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Provides guidance for provisioning dashboards and data sources as code and organizing dashboard JSON for version control and automated deployment.
• Shows common panel types, field configuration, templating variables, and query examples for Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and SQL data sources to build actionable visualizations.
• Documents alerting workflows including Grafana-managed rules, notification policies, contact points, silences, and SMTP/OAuth server settings for unified alerting and notifications.
• Covers RBAC and service account provisioning patterns for multi-tenant orgs and examples for automating service account tokens and role definitions.

Quick Start

Provision a dashboard that queries Prometheus for request rate, add a namespace template variable, enable unified alerting with an email contact point, and export both the dashboard JSON and provisioning YAML.