o11y-service-dashboard

To create an APM service overview dashboard, this Skill discovers service telemetry, summarizes key metrics like throughput and error rates, and automatically provisions dashboard panels via the Kibana API. It returns a populated dashboard URL and a list of created visualizations.

An Elastic APM service dashboard includes metrics for service throughput, error rates, and transaction types. The Skill also profiles available infrastructure metrics and suggests appropriate visualization panels to provide a comprehensive service overview.

Yes, provisioning Kibana dashboards requires access to APM indices and a Kibana API endpoint with appropriate credentials. You also need the ability to call discovery and summary tools to populate the dashboard template over a specified time range.

Yes, you can automatically discover APM services. The Skill finds services by identifying their environment, language, throughput, and data freshness, allowing you to scope the dashboard to a specific target service without manual data exploration.

The best way to visualize APM transaction types and error rates is to use a service summary that profiles these metrics and recommends visualization panels. This automates panel creation in Kibana, avoiding the need to handcraft visualizations for incident triage.

Manually building APM dashboards fails because exploring service telemetry and handcrafting visualizations is time-consuming. Automating dashboard provisioning streamlines this process, allowing developers and SREs to quickly generate focused service overviews for performance reviews.