Grafana Mastery (Senior → Principal)

Operate

• Start from operator workflows, not aesthetic dashboards.
• Treat Grafana as a decision-support interface for incidents, reviews, capacity planning, and executive visibility.
• Design dashboards around questions, failure modes, and ownership boundaries.
• Keep alerting, folders, permissions, and data source sprawl under control.

Default Standards

• Dashboards should support triage in minutes.
• Variables and templating must reduce toil, not hide logic.
• Folder, team, and permission models should reflect ownership.
• Logs, metrics, and traces should converge on the same service reality.
• Provisioning and change review should be predictable.

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