Dashboards

This page shows you how to ship a Grafana dashboard for your application through the Stakater Application Helm Chart.

How it works

Stakater operates Grafana and the Grafana Operator on the cluster. You declare dashboards through your application's values.yaml; the chart renders the matching GrafanaDashboard resource; the operator registers it in Grafana automatically. You do not log into Grafana to import dashboards by hand, and you do not need cluster-admin access — the same chart commit ships the dashboard to every environment.

What you do

Build the dashboard interactively in Grafana first, then export the JSON. Add it to your values.yaml under grafanaDashboard:

grafanaDashboard:
  enabled: true
  contents:
    example-dashboard:
      json: |-
        {
          "title": "Example dashboard",
          "panels": [],
          "schemaVersion": 27
        }

The chart applies the required grafanaDashboard: grafana-operator label and places the dashboard in a Grafana folder named after your namespace. Open Grafana from Forecastle and navigate to Dashboards → Browse to find it. If the JSON is invalid, the dashboard does not appear — check the operator's logs.

Next step

Continue to Uptime to add external availability checks for your application.