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Logs of Duty: The Grafana dashboard

Making you feel better about incidents you still don’t understand.

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Matt
Aug 31, 2025
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Rule #1: Beauty over accuracy. Colors matter more than data. Your dashboard will be discarded in less than thirty seconds if it is not visually appealing. It doesn’t matter if you query the wrong metrics, just make it look nice.

Rule #2: Display only what’s easy to measure. If Prometheus can’t scrape it, it must not matter. Forget business impact, your t…

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