A Practical Guide to Dashboarding

Embark on a comprehensive journey through dashboarding and visualization in this 49-minute conference talk. Explore the challenges of choosing appropriate tools and setups, and learn how to determine essential information for display. Dive into practical aspects of dashboarding, focusing on metrics and application telemetry. Witness a Docker-powered demo showcasing monitoring infrastructure setup. Discover common patterns for creating effective visualizations and dashboards, while identifying anti-patterns to avoid. Gain insights into topics such as baselines, Golden Signals, API Ring, and CattyCoder. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates adding data sources, response APIs, and creating graphs. Understand the importance of ratios, rates, error duration, and production metrics in dashboarding. Leave equipped with valuable resources and knowledge to create impactful dashboards from start to finish.

Intro
What is a dashboard
Baselines
Golden Signals
API Ring
CattyCoder
Demo
Adding a data source
Adding a response API
Creating a graph
Ratios
RateError Duration
Production
Metrics
Resources