Datadog Dashboard Builder
by @charlie-morrison
Design Datadog dashboards and monitors — recommend metrics, widget layouts, alerting thresholds, and SLO definitions. Analyze existing dashboards for blind s...
📋 Tips & Best Practices
Use Terraform or Datadog's API to version-control dashboards — never build production dashboards only in the UI
Set default time window to 4 hours — long enough to see trends, short enough to see spikes
Add a "Notes" widget at the top with runbook links, on-call rotation, and escalation path
Use template variables for env and service so one dashboard works across environments
Group related widgets in collapsible sections to reduce visual noise
Set monitor notification channels by severity: P1 to PagerDuty, P2 to Slack, P3 to email
Review alert thresholds quarterly — traffic growth makes static thresholds obsolete
Add week_before() overlays to catch gradual degradation that doesn't trigger alerts clawhub install datadog-dashboard-builder
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