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Dashboards

● Core

Real-time visual display of metrics and logs—graphs, heat maps, tables—so you spot issues at a glance.

Think of it like

Car dashboard showing speed, fuel, engine temp; you do not need to ask the car for data, you just look.

Example

Production dashboard showing model latency, error rate, and cost-per-request updated every 5 seconds.

How it actually works

Useful dashboards tell a story—one per persona (product manager wants cost trends, engineer wants latency distribution). Avoid chart-salad: a wall of 50 charts hides what matters. Drill-down capability lets you zoom from "system is slow" to "model A in region B is the culprit." Link to runbooks for common issues.

For product teams

Instant visibility into system health and cost to drive operational decisions.

For engineers

Grafana, Datadog, or custom visualization queries metrics DB and renders time-series graphs; includes alerts and drill-down links.

Metrics — Display.
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