Dashboards
The Dashboards page lets you create, import, and manage custom dashboards to visualize your observability data.
Overview
Dashboards provide a customizable way to monitor your infrastructure and applications. Each dashboard contains one or more panels that visualize metrics, logs, or traces data.
Dashboard List
The dashboard list shows all available dashboards:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Dashboard name |
| Description | Optional description of what the dashboard monitors |
| Created By | User who created the dashboard |
| Created At | Creation timestamp |
Creating a Dashboard
- Click Add Dashboard in the top right
- Enter a dashboard name and optional description
- Add panels using the Data Explorer query builder
- Arrange panels by dragging and resizing
- Save the dashboard
Importing Dashboards
Click Import to import dashboard definitions. This is useful for:
- Sharing dashboards across teams
- Migrating dashboards from other environments
- Using pre-built dashboard templates
Built-in Dashboards
KubeSense includes several pre-built dashboards:
- Traces Dashboard — Overview of distributed trace metrics
- Logs Dashboard — Log volume and error trends
- MySQL Dashboard — MySQL database performance metrics
- Postgres Monitoring — PostgreSQL performance metrics
- Kafka Dashboard — Kafka broker and consumer metrics
- Container Metrics — Pod and container resource utilization
- Node Metrics — Cluster node health and performance
Dashboard Panels
Each panel supports:
- Time Series — Line charts for metric trends over time
- Bar charts — Categorical comparisons
- Tables — Tabular data display
- Stat panels — Single-value KPIs
- Custom time ranges independent of the dashboard time picker