I am not good in building dashboards! But I recently learned a couple of universal tips on how to make any dashboard more actionable.
I learned it from Aleksandra Kunert who I got on an observability lab session. In Part 1 of our video she walks us through a dashboard that she optimized by following these best practices:
Providing scope of data displayed
The power of Donut charts
Tile-specific timeframes
Explain the importance of data
Scale visualizations through Honeycombs
Visualize the same data equally
While Aleksandra uses Dynatrace in her example the tips are universally applicable to all observability dashboarding solutions whether its Grafana, DataDog, NewRelic or others
Link to the video on YT: https://dt-url.net/devrel-tips-universial-dashboards-part1
Call to action
If you have any feedback or your own best practices please share it here. Goal would be to build a collection of best practices