Kubernetes & AKS Academy · Observability Center

Dashboard Design

Build role-based dashboards that communicate health, risk and trend clearly.

Objective: Provide concise operational views for engineers, service owners and leaders.

Practical guidance

Prepare and design

01

Define dashboard audiences and decisions

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02

Select meaningful indicators and thresholds

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03

Design normal and degraded-state views

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Practical guidance

Operate and improve

01

Build service and dependency panels

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02

Test readability during incidents

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03

Tune refresh rates and drill-down links

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Practical guidance

Evidence and governance

01

Record dashboard ownership

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02

Review usage and gaps

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03

Retire obsolete views

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