Grafana Dashboards & Alerts AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Grafana visualizes telemetry from data sources (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, CloudWatch, …) via dashboards (panels + variables) and unified alerting (multi-source rules → contact points). Agents design on-call-first layouts (RED at top), provision JSON/YAML in Git, and keep alert expressions identical to @prometheus rule sources of truth.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Grafana operational stack                   │
│                                                             │
│  Data sources (Prometheus/Loki/…)                           │
│       ↓ queries (PromQL/LogQL)                              │
│  Dashboards (variables, rows, panels)                       │
│  Unified alerting → contact points → Slack/PagerDuty        │
│  Provisioning: datasources.yaml + dashboards/*.json         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘