Workflow·Analytics & Monitoring·v1.0.0

Dashboard Builder

Build monitoring dashboards that answer real operator questions for Grafana, SigNoz, and similar platforms.

You say
Buy it · $12 Read it before you buy $12 Written by affaan-m · unverified publisher
Context cost
600 tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 2.4 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITpaid listing
Last change
v1.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Build monitoring dashboards that answer real operator questions for Grafana, SigNoz, and similar platforms. Use when turning metrics into a working dashboard instead of a vanity board.

Installed, it changes the agent in these ways.

What this skill changes about the agent is not written down here yet. The listing was collected from its source, and the description is in its own SKILL.md.

Workflow

Runs a procedure end to end.

analyticsmonitoring

The skill itself

This is the whole product. A skill is instructions the model reads, so there is nothing behind the listing you cannot see first — the front matter loads with every session, and the body below it loads when the skill triggers.

SKILL.md2.4 kB · 110 lines
--- name: dashboard-builder description: Build monitoring dashboards that answer real operator questions for Grafana, SigNoz, and similar platforms. Use when turning metrics into a working dashboard instead of a vanity board. metadata: version: "1.0.0" origin: ECC direct-port adaptation ---
9# Dashboard Builder
10
11Use this when the task is to build a dashboard people can operate from.
12
13The goal is not "show every metric." The goal is to answer:
14
15- is it healthy?
16- where is the bottleneck?
17- what changed?
18- what action should someone take?
19
20## When to Use
21
22- "Build a Kafka monitoring dashboard"
23- "Create a Grafana dashboard for Elasticsearch"
24- "Make a SigNoz dashboard for this service"
25- "Turn this metrics list into a real operational dashboard"
26
27## Guardrails
28
29- do not start from visual layout; start from operator questions
30- do not include every available metric just because it exists
31- do not mix health, throughput, and resource panels without structure
32- do not ship panels without titles, units, and sane thresholds
33
34## Workflow
35
36### 1. Define the operating questions
37
38Organize around:
39
40- health / availability
41- latency / performance
42- throughput / volume
43- saturation / resources
44- service-specific risk
45
46### 2. Study the target platform schema
47
48Inspect existing dashboards first:
49
50- JSON structure
51- query language
52- variables
53- threshold styling
54- section layout
55
56### 3. Build the minimum useful board
57
58Recommended structure:
59
601. overview
612. performance
623. resources
634. service-specific section
64
65### 4. Cut vanity panels
66
67Every panel should answer a real question. If it does not, remove it.
68
69## Example Panel Sets
70
71### Elasticsearch
72
73- cluster health
74- shard allocation
75- search latency
76- indexing rate
77- JVM heap / GC
78
79### Kafka
80
81- broker count
82- under-replicated partitions
83- messages in / out
84- consumer lag
85- disk and network pressure
86
87### API gateway / ingress
88
89- request rate
90- p50 / p95 / p99 latency
91- error rate
92- upstream health
93- active connections
94
95## Quality Checklist
96
97- [ ] valid dashboard JSON
98- [ ] clear section grouping
99- [ ] titles and units are present
100- [ ] thresholds/status colors are meaningful
101- [ ] variables exist for common filters
102- [ ] default time range and refresh are sensible
103- [ ] no vanity panels with no operator value
104
105## Related Skills
106
107- research-ops
108- backend-patterns
109- terminal-ops
110
In the file
SKILL.md392 words
Files1
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈70
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
530
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.30%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 3% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

600 tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Small enough to keep loaded permanently without thinking about it.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

Adoption
Installsnone yet
Ratingno reviews yet

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been published here. It is in the skill’s own SKILL.md, which its author has not sent to the marketplace yet.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It writes no files and reaches no network. All it changes is how the model reasons and writes.

What it asks for
Writes filesno
Network accessno

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 2.4 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md2.4 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

$12 once
Dashboard Builder · MIT · affaan-m
one-time
Price$12 once
LicenceMIT — the author’s, unchanged by this purchase
Paid throughStripe, once, on the card you add at the checkout
Keeps workingfor good — the files are yours once they are on disk
Updatesevery release of 1.x through this account

You can read the whole bundle before paying — the SKILL.md above is the product, not a preview of it. What the money buys is the delivery: the folder packaged and handed to your machine by key, every update its author ships, and our support if it does not do what this listing says. The terms of use are MIT, set by the author and unchanged by buying it here.

Payment runs through Stripe, on a page like this one rather than a redirect. Once there is an account it joins the same mcprush invoice as everything else you run, so there is never a second card to enter.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. A client with a skills folder reads it without being told; everywhere else the same text works, it is just handed to the model rather than found.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude Desktop
ChatGPT
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok.grok/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Windsurf.windsurf/skills/
Agent SDK.claude/skills/
HTTP / API
This release
Version1.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
Price$12
Referenceaffaan-m/dashboard-builder

Versions

v1.0.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.0.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

Put affaan-m/dashboard-builder@1.0.0 in the install command to hold this exact version. Without the suffix you get whatever is current the day you install, and nothing moves under you afterwards.

Reviews

no reviews yet · no installs yet

Nobody has reviewed this skill yet. The rating is the mean of the reviews written here, so there is none until somebody writes the first.

Who can post

Only accounts that have had the skill installed for fourteen days, so a review is written after living with it rather than after reading it. Publishers may reply once.

Publisher
Servers0