Creating an observability dashboard

Now, with our tools up and running, we can finally jump into the visualization dashboards. Monitoring and observability dashboards are designed to help gain deep insights into the health and behavior of our systems. You will observe in this exercise how Grafana can help us create an observability dashboard and a number of features inside it.

In this recipe, we will create our first dashboard with a few panels to better monitor our Airflow application. You will notice that, with a few steps, it is possible to have an overview of how Airflow behaves over time and be prepared to build your future panels.

Getting ready

Refer to the Technical requirements section for this recipe since we will handle it with the same technology.

To accomplish this exercise, ensure that StatsD, Prometheus, and Grafana are adequately configured and running.

How to do it…

Let’s create our dashboard to keep track of Airflow:

1. On the Grafana...