# Dashboards

> Descriptive data about a system's key signals, arranged as panels that show health and trends at a glance.

Record: `architecture:dashboards`
Kind: artifact
Layer: [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/observability.md)
Severity: recommended
Scope: service, operations, visibility
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-dashboards

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [SLO/SLI](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/slo-sli.md) and before [Strategy Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/strategy-pattern.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: Build Signal Dashboards
- Detected by: no curated view of key signals
- Violated by: the developer grepping raw logs to judge health
- Measured by: time-to-diagnose during incidents
- Enforced by: operations review

## Requires

- [Monitoring](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/monitoring.md)

## Reinforces

- [Observability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/observability.md)
- [Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/traceability.md)

## Enables

- [At-a-Glance System Health](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/at-a-glance-system-health.md)
- [Trend Visibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/trend-visibility.md)

## Conflicts with

- [Log-Grep-Only Diagnosis](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/log-grep-only-diagnosis.md)

## In tension with

- [Dashboard Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/dashboard-sprawl.md)

## Tensions

- [Dashboards / Dashboard Sprawl](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/dashboard-sprawl-dashboards.md)

## Severity

- [recommended](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-recommended.md)

## Category

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/observability-auditability-traceability.md)

## Linked from

- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md)
- [Observability / Auditability / Traceability](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-observability-auditability-traceability.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)