Grafana

Workflow

1. Confirm user personas and decision paths for dashboards.
2. Build dashboard hierarchy by domain, ownership, and criticality.
3. Design panels around questions, not raw metric dumping.
4. Configure alert rules and notification policies with runbook linkage.
5. Provision dashboards/datasources/alerts as code.
6. Enforce RBAC and folder permissions.
7. Validate usability during incident drills.

Preflight (Ask / Check First)

• Grafana version and deployment topology.
• Datasources and query cost constraints.
• Team/folder ownership model.
• Alerting backend and escalation process.
• Current dashboard sprawl and stale panel count.