Review Datadog Dashboard

Audit an existing Datadog dashboard against operational readiness principles. The core principles are: graphs should earn their place with alert thresholds, thresholds should sit close to normal traffic, a customer-facing section should exist, and the dashboard should be readable by someone with zero service knowledge.

These are guiding principles — not a rigid checklist. Apply judgment based on the product and business context. A context-providing metric (like deployment events) may earn its place without a threshold. A service with unusual traffic patterns may need different proximity rules.

Interview Phase

Skip interview if ALL of these are already specified:

• Dashboard ID or URL
• Service name or team context

Always interview if: No dashboard ID is provided or multiple dashboards may be relevant.

Questions

1. Dashboard — "Which dashboard should I review? Provide a dashboard ID, URL, or service name to search for."
   • Impact: Determines which dashboard definition to fetch