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# Monitoring Dashboards with Grafana

**Name**: Monitoring Dashboards with Grafana

**Category**: DevOps, Backend Monitoring, Observability

**Type**: Study Jam

**Summary - oneliner**: A 1-day offline workshop to help learners build end-to-end monitoring dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana.

**Purpose**:\
To teach participants how to instrument applications, collect metrics, and visualize system performance using the Grafana observability stack.

**Core Concepts Coverage**:

* Prometheus fundamentals & metric scraping
* Flask API development & MariaDB persistence
* Prometheus instrumentation (latency, request count, etc.)
* Grafana dashboard creation
* Docker Compose deployment of full stack

**How**:

1. One-day offline hands-on jam
2. Build Flask + MariaDB app
3. Add Prometheus metrics
4. Visualize metrics in Grafana (15-panel dashboard)
5. Deploy stack with Docker Compose

**Expected Outcome**:

* Understand the monitoring pipeline
* Experience with instrumenting real services
* Create practical Grafana dashboards
* End-to-end observability setup using Docker

**How to Measure Impact**:

* Dashboard functionality
* Metrics instrumentation completeness
* Docker Compose deployment success
* Learner feedback

**Pre-event Checklist**:

* Share install guides (Docker, VS Code)
* Prepare base Flask repo
* Share Prometheus basics docs
* Create printable Grafana reference cards

**Post-event Checklist**:

* Final dashboard demo
* Share repo with completed setup
* Collect participant feedback
* Share DevOps/monitoring learning paths

**Curated by**: Anirudth, TOCH

**Ideal Audience**: Backend, DevOps, and system engineering beginners.

**Resource Links**:

* [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/)
* [Prometheus Docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/)
* [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/)


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