datadog / effective-dashboards

A curated list of useful Datadog dashboards and Dashboard design best practices

Effective Dashboards

Datadog is a complete platform that ingest all your observability and security telemetry data and allows to correlate them to help finding the root cause of potential issues.

Dashboards allow to have visualizations that help finding those correlations, but dashboards need to be carefully designed to make them as effective as possible.

Datadog maintains a set of out of the box dashboards for the different integrations. These dashboards are available from the Dashboards menu once an integration has been enabled. If you want to contribute a dashboard to an existing Datadog integration, follow the integration dashboard best practices documentation.

This repository aims to collect and document general dashboard design best practices as well as maintaining a curated repository of well designed and reusable dashboards that don't fit in one of the integrations. If you want to contribute one of your dashboards to this repository, follow the contributing guidelines.

Curated dashboards folder

The dashboards folder includes a collection of community contributed effective dashboards.

If you want to contribute to this repository with an effective dashboard you have created, follow our contribution guidelines.

Dashboarding best practices

The main goal of "Effective Dashboards" is to create a set of best practices and guidelines on what makes a dashboard effective and useful.

You can read the current guidelines and best practices, and/or contribute to improve the guide.