Introduction to Dashboarding

Grafana Setup and Azure PostgreSQL Connection

Pipeline Health Dashboard

Data Quality Dashboard

Presenting Metrics and Definitions

Practice

Assignment

Gotchas & Pitfalls

Week 11 Lesson Plan (Teachers)

Pipeline Health Dashboard

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Suggested Topics

• What pipeline health means: runs succeeded, failed, duration trends, data freshness
• Querying the pipeline_runs table: status counts, duration percentiles, failure rates
• Choosing the right visualizations: time series for trends, stat panels for current status, tables for details
• Building a "last run status" panel that shows green/red at a glance
• Adding time range filters so users can zoom into specific periods
• Setting up alert thresholds: when to notify on failures or slow runs
• Grafana alerting: setting up alert rules on pipeline metrics, notification channels, and alert thresholds. This is what turns a passive dashboard into an observability system.
• Dashboard variables: parameterizing queries by pipeline name or date range
• Designing for at-a-glance understanding: what should be visible without scrolling

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