Monitoring Dashboards

Monitoring dashboards provide visual representations of system metrics, enabling at-a-glance health checks, trend analysis, and rapid problem identification. Well-designed dashboards surface critical information, guide investigation workflows, and enable data-driven decision-making for operations and capacity planning. Geode’s comprehensive metrics expose detailed performance data that can be visualized through Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or custom dashboard platforms. Effective dashboard design balances detail with clarity, focusing on actionable insights rather than raw data dumps. This guide covers dashboard design principles, essential visualizations, Grafana configuration, dashboard templates, and best practices for monitoring Geode deployments. <h3 id="dashboard-design-principles" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Dashboard Design Principles <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="dashboard-design-principles" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Dashboard Design Principles"> Share link </button> </h3><div id="headingShareModal" class="heading-share-modal" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="headingShareTitle" hidden> <div class="hsm-dialog" role="document"> <div class="hsm-header"> <h2 id="headingShareTitle" class="h6 mb-0 fw-bold">Share this section</h2> <button type="button" class="hsm-close" aria-label="Close"> </button> </div> <div class="hsm-body"> <label for="headingShareInput" class="form-label small text-muted mb-1 text-uppercase fw-bold" style="font-size: 0.7rem; 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align-items-center group"> Purpose-Driven Organization <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="purpose-driven-organization" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Purpose-Driven Organization"> Share link </button> </h4>Design dashboards for specific audiences and use cases: Executive Dashboard: High-level SLO compliance and business metrics Operations Dashboard: System health, resource utilization, alerts Developer Dashboard: Query performance, application metrics, errors Capacity Planning Dashboard: Growth trends, resource forecasts <h4 id="information-hierarchy" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Information Hierarchy <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="information-hierarchy" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Information Hierarchy"> Share link </button> </h4>Organize panels from most to least important: <ol> <li>SLO/Health Status (top): Red/green indicators for overall health</li> <li>Key Metrics (middle): Query rate, latency, errors</li> <li>Supporting Metrics (bottom): Detailed breakdowns, diagnostics</li> </ol> <h4 id="at-a-glance-comprehension" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> At-a-Glance Comprehension <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="at-a-glance-comprehension" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: At-a-Glance Comprehension"> Share link </button> </h4>Use visualization types that enable instant understanding: Stat Panels: Single value with threshold coloring (good/warning/critical) Gauge Panels: Percentage utilization with color zones Graph Panels: Time series trends over last N hours Heatmaps: Distribution visualization (latency percentiles) Tables: Detailed breakdowns when needed <h3 id="essential-geode-dashboards" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Essential Geode Dashboards <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="essential-geode-dashboards" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Essential Geode Dashboards"> Share link </button> </h3> <h4 id="system-overview-dashboard" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> System Overview Dashboard <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="system-overview-dashboard" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: System Overview Dashboard"> Share link </button> </h4>High-level health check for Geode cluster: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">Dashboard: Geode System Overview Refresh: 30s Time Range: Last 6 hours Row 1: SLO Status - Panel: Overall Health Type: Stat Query: up{job="geode"} Thresholds: 0=red, 1=green Value: "{{ if value == 1 }}UP{{ else }}DOWN{{ end }}" - Panel: Query Success Rate (SLO: >99.9%) Type: Gauge Query: | rate(geode_queries_total{status="success"}[5m]) / rate(geode_queries_total[5m]) * 100 Thresholds: <99.9=red, <99.95=orange, >=99.95=green - Panel: P95 Latency (SLO: <500ms) Type: Gauge Query: | histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) * 1000 Thresholds: >500=red, >300=orange, <=300=green Unit: ms - Panel: Error Rate Type: Stat Query: rate(geode_queries_total{status="error"}[5m]) Thresholds: >10=red, >1=orange, <=1=green Unit: errors/sec Row 2: Query Metrics - Panel: Query Rate Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Success Query: rate(geode_queries_total{status="success"}[5m]) - Legend: Error Query: rate(geode_queries_total{status="error"}[5m]) Y-Axis: queries/sec - Panel: Query Latency Percentiles Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: p50 Query: histogram_quantile(0.50, rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) - Legend: p95 Query: histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) - Legend: p99 Query: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) Y-Axis: seconds Format: Time series Row 3: System Resources - Panel: Memory Usage Type: Graph Query: geode_memory_used_bytes / geode_memory_total_bytes * 100 Y-Axis: percent Thresholds: >90=red, >75=orange - Panel: Disk Usage Type: Graph Query: geode_disk_used_bytes / geode_disk_total_bytes * 100 Y-Axis: percent Thresholds: >90=red, >75=orange - Panel: Connection Pool Type: Graph Query: geode_active_connections / geode_max_connections * 100 Y-Axis: percent Thresholds: >90=red, >75=orange Row 4: Recent Alerts - Panel: Active Alerts Type: Alert List State Filter: Pending, Alerting Sort: Severity </code></pre></div> <h4 id="query-performance-dashboard" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Query Performance Dashboard <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="query-performance-dashboard" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Query Performance Dashboard"> Share link </button> </h4>Deep dive into query execution metrics: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">Dashboard: Geode Query Performance Refresh: 10s Time Range: Last 1 hour Row 1: Query Throughput - Panel: Queries per Second Type: Graph Query: sum(rate(geode_queries_total[1m])) Fill: Area Stack: true - Panel: Queries by Status Type: Pie Chart Queries: - Legend: Success Query: sum(increase(geode_queries_total{status="success"}[1h])) - Legend: Error Query: sum(increase(geode_queries_total{status="error"}[1h])) Row 2: Latency Analysis - Panel: Latency Heatmap Type: Heatmap Query: | sum(rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le) X-Axis: Time Y-Axis: Latency buckets Color: Query count - Panel: Slow Queries (>1s) Type: Stat Query: rate(geode_slow_queries_total[5m]) Thresholds: >5=red, >1=orange Unit: queries/sec Row 3: Query Breakdown - Panel: Top Query Types by Duration Type: Bar Gauge Query: | topk(10, sum by (query_type) (rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_sum[5m])) ) Orientation: Horizontal - Panel: Query Cache Hit Rate Type: Graph Query: | rate(geode_query_plan_cache_hits_total[5m]) / (rate(geode_query_plan_cache_hits_total[5m]) + rate(geode_query_plan_cache_misses_total[5m])) * 100 Y-Axis: percent Thresholds: <70=red, <85=orange Row 4: Query Details Table - Panel: Recent Slow Queries Type: Table Query: | topk(20, geode_query_duration_seconds{quantile="0.99"} ) Columns: - Query ID - Query Text (truncated) - Duration (ms) - Rows Returned - Timestamp </code></pre></div> <h4 id="transaction-dashboard" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Transaction Dashboard <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="transaction-dashboard" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Transaction Dashboard"> Share link </button> </h4>Monitor transaction behavior and ACID guarantees: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">Dashboard: Geode Transactions Refresh: 10s Time Range: Last 1 hour Row 1: Transaction Throughput - Panel: Transactions per Second Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Committed Query: rate(geode_transactions_total{status="committed"}[5m]) - Legend: Rolled Back Query: rate(geode_transactions_total{status="rolled_back"}[5m]) Stack: true - Panel: Commit Rate Type: Gauge Query: | rate(geode_transactions_total{status="committed"}[5m]) / rate(geode_transactions_total[5m]) * 100 Thresholds: <95=red, <98=orange, >=98=green Unit: percent Row 2: Transaction Performance - Panel: Transaction Duration Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: p50 Query: histogram_quantile(0.50, rate(geode_transaction_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) - Legend: p95 Query: histogram_quantile(0.95, rate(geode_transaction_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) - Legend: p99 Query: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(geode_transaction_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) - Panel: Active Transactions Type: Graph Query: geode_active_transactions Y-Axis: count Row 3: Conflicts and Retries - Panel: Conflict Rate Type: Graph Query: rate(geode_transaction_conflicts_total[5m]) Y-Axis: conflicts/sec Thresholds: >100=red, >50=orange - Panel: Conflict Ratio Type: Graph Query: | rate(geode_transaction_conflicts_total[5m]) / rate(geode_transactions_total[5m]) * 100 Y-Axis: percent Thresholds: >5=red, >2=orange Row 4: Long-Running Transactions - Panel: Transactions >60s Type: Stat Query: geode_long_running_transactions{threshold="60s"} Thresholds: >5=red, >2=orange - Panel: Oldest Transaction Age Type: Stat Query: geode_oldest_transaction_age_seconds Unit: seconds Thresholds: >300=red, >120=orange </code></pre></div> <h4 id="resource-utilization-dashboard" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Resource Utilization Dashboard <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="resource-utilization-dashboard" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Resource Utilization Dashboard"> Share link </button> </h4>Track resource consumption and capacity: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">Dashboard: Geode Resource Utilization Refresh: 30s Time Range: Last 24 hours Row 1: Memory - Panel: Memory Usage Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Used Query: geode_memory_used_bytes - Legend: Total Query: geode_memory_total_bytes Y-Axis: bytes Format: IEC - Panel: Memory by Subsystem Type: Graph Query: sum by (subsystem) (geode_memory_used_bytes) Stack: true Y-Axis: bytes Row 2: Disk - Panel: Disk Space Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Used Query: geode_disk_used_bytes - Legend: Available Query: geode_disk_free_bytes Y-Axis: bytes Format: IEC - Panel: WAL Size Type: Graph Query: geode_wal_size_bytes Y-Axis: bytes Thresholds: >10GB=orange, >20GB=red Row 3: I/O - Panel: Disk I/O Operations Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Reads Query: rate(geode_disk_io_operations_total{type="read"}[5m]) - Legend: Writes Query: rate(geode_disk_io_operations_total{type="write"}[5m]) Y-Axis: ops/sec - Panel: Disk I/O Throughput Type: Graph Queries: - Legend: Read Query: rate(geode_disk_bytes_read_total[5m]) - Legend: Write Query: rate(geode_disk_bytes_written_total[5m]) Y-Axis: bytes/sec Row 4: Cache - Panel: Cache Hit Rate Type: Graph Query: | rate(geode_cache_hits_total[5m]) / (rate(geode_cache_hits_total[5m]) + rate(geode_cache_misses_total[5m])) * 100 Y-Axis: percent - Panel: Cache Size Type: Graph Query: geode_cache_size_bytes Y-Axis: bytes </code></pre></div> <h3 id="grafana-configuration" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Grafana Configuration <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="grafana-configuration" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Grafana Configuration"> Share link </button> </h3> <h4 id="data-source-setup" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Data Source Setup <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="data-source-setup" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Data Source Setup"> Share link </button> </h4><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">apiVersion: 1 datasources: - name: Prometheus type: prometheus access: proxy url: http://prometheus:9090 isDefault: true jsonData: timeInterval: "15s" queryTimeout: "60s" httpMethod: POST </code></pre></div> <h4 id="dashboard-variables" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Dashboard Variables <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="dashboard-variables" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Dashboard Variables"> Share link </button> </h4>Use template variables for dynamic filtering: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">templating: - name: instance type: query datasource: Prometheus query: label_values(geode_queries_total, instance) refresh: on_time_range_change multi: true includeAll: true - name: interval type: interval query: 1m,5m,10m,30m,1h auto: true auto_count: 30 auto_min: 10s - name: user type: query datasource: Prometheus query: label_values(geode_queries_total, user) refresh: on_time_range_change multi: true includeAll: true </code></pre></div>Use variables in queries: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-promql" data-lang="promql"># Filter by selected instance rate(geode_queries_total{instance=~"$instance"}[$interval]) # Filter by selected user sum by (user) (rate(geode_queries_total{user=~"$user"}[5m])) </code></pre></div> <h4 id="panel-annotations" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Panel Annotations <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="panel-annotations" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Panel Annotations"> Share link </button> </h4>Add context with annotations: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">annotations: - name: Deployments datasource: Prometheus expr: | ALERTS{alertname="DeploymentCompleted"} titleFormat: "Deployment" textFormat: "{{ version }}" iconColor: green - name: Incidents datasource: Prometheus expr: | ALERTS{severity="critical"} titleFormat: "{{ alertname }}" textFormat: "{{ description }}" iconColor: red </code></pre></div> <h3 id="dashboard-best-practices" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Dashboard Best Practices <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="dashboard-best-practices" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Dashboard Best Practices"> Share link </button> </h3> <h4 id="performance-optimization" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Performance Optimization <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="performance-optimization" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Performance Optimization"> Share link </button> </h4>Use Recording Rules: Pre-compute expensive queries to reduce dashboard load time <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml">groups: - name: dashboard_recordings interval: 15s rules: - record: job:geode_query_latency_p95:5m expr: histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (job, le)) - record: job:geode_query_rate:5m expr: sum(rate(geode_queries_total[5m])) by (job, status) </code></pre></div>Use in dashboard: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-promql" data-lang="promql"># Instead of complex query histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(geode_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)) # Use recording rule job:geode_query_latency_p95:5m </code></pre></div> <h4 id="consistent-visualization" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Consistent Visualization <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="consistent-visualization" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Consistent Visualization"> Share link </button> </h4>Color Schemes: Use consistent colors across dashboards <ul> <li>Green: Good/Normal</li> <li>Yellow/Orange: Warning</li> <li>Red: Critical/Error</li> <li>Blue: Informational</li> </ul> Units: Use appropriate units consistently <ul> <li>Time: seconds, milliseconds</li> <li>Data: bytes (IEC format: KiB, MiB, GiB)</li> <li>Rates: /sec</li> </ul> Thresholds: Set meaningful thresholds based on SLOs <h4 id="dashboard-organization" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Dashboard Organization <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="dashboard-organization" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Dashboard Organization"> Share link </button> </h4>Folder Structure: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback">Geode/ ├── Overview/ │ └── System Overview ├── Performance/ │ ├── Query Performance │ ├── Transaction Performance │ └── Index Performance ├── Resources/ │ ├── Resource Utilization │ ├── Memory Deep Dive │ └── Disk Analysis └── Operations/ ├── Alerts └── Capacity Planning </code></pre></div> <h4 id="dashboard-sharing" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Dashboard Sharing <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="dashboard-sharing" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Dashboard Sharing"> Share link </button> </h4>Export dashboards as JSON for version control: <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"># Export dashboard curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \ "http://grafana:3000/api/dashboards/uid/geode-overview" \ | jq '.dashboard' > geode-overview.json # Import dashboard curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d @geode-overview.json \ "http://grafana:3000/api/dashboards/db" </code></pre></div> <h3 id="related-topics" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Related Topics <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="related-topics" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Related Topics"> Share link </button> </h3><ul> <li><a href="/tags/monitoring/" >System Monitoring</a> - Monitoring strategies</li> <li><a href="/tags/metrics/" >Performance Metrics</a> - Metrics collection</li> <li><a href="/tags/grafana/" >Grafana Visualization</a> - Grafana setup</li> <li><a href="/tags/prometheus/" >Prometheus Integration</a> - Prometheus configuration</li> <li><a href="/tags/observability/" >System Observability</a> - Observability pillars</li> <li><a href="/tags/alerting/" >Alerting</a> - Alert configuration</li> </ul> <h3 id="further-reading" class="position-relative d-flex align-items-center group"> Further Reading <button type="button" class="h-share btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none link-secondary opacity-50 hover-opacity-100 transition-all ms-1" data-share-target="further-reading" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Share link: Further Reading"> Share link </button> </h3><ul> <li>Dashboard Design Best Practices</li> <li>Grafana Dashboard Templates</li> <li>Prometheus Query Optimization</li> <li>Visual Analytics Principles</li> <li>Dashboard as Code</li> </ul>

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