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Last modified July 6, 2026

Pre-built dashboards

This page catalogs the pre-built Grafana dashboards that the Giant Swarm Observability Platform provides out of the box. They’re accessible to all users through the Shared Org and require no setup.

The catalog is built from the public_dashboards section of the Giant Swarm dashboards repository. Dashboards are continuously updated and deployed via Helm charts. Many are synchronized from upstream community monitoring projects to provide best-practice monitoring patterns.

To learn how to find and navigate these dashboards in Grafana, see the dashboard exploration guide.

Core platform dashboards

Essential cluster and infrastructure monitoring:

  • Cluster Overview - High-level cluster health and resource utilization
  • Node Overview - Individual node metrics, CPU, memory, disk usage
  • Node Utilization - Node resource allocation and capacity planning

Kubernetes component dashboards

Core Kubernetes service monitoring:

  • API Server Performance - Kubernetes API server metrics and latency
  • Certificate Details - TLS certificate expiration and health monitoring
  • Persistent Volume Usage - Storage metrics and volume health
  • Giant Swarm / Kubernetes Persistent Volumes - Enhanced PV monitoring

Network and ingress dashboards

Network infrastructure and traffic monitoring:

  • DNS - DNS resolution performance and CoreDNS metrics
  • Ingress Nginx Controller - Nginx ingress controller performance
  • Nginx Ingress Controller Connection Distribution - Connection patterns
  • Cilium Performance - Cilium CNI performance and BPF map pressure
  • External DNS - External DNS controller metrics

Application and workload dashboards

Application performance and resource monitoring:

  • Pod Requests vs Usage - Resource requests vs actual consumption
  • SLO Reporting - Service Level Objective compliance tracking
  • Container Images from docker.io - Container image usage analytics
  • Kong Connection Distribution - Kong ingress controller metrics

Observability platform dashboards

Monitoring infrastructure health:

  • Prometheus - Prometheus server performance and resource usage
  • Prometheus Remote Write - Remote write performance metrics
  • Alertmanager / Overview - Alert management and notification status

Cluster automation dashboards

Platform automation and lifecycle management:

  • Flux Control Plane - GitOps controller health and sync status
  • KEDA - Kubernetes Event Driven autoscaling metrics
  • Karpenter - Node autoscaling performance (AWS)
  • AWS Load Balancer Controller - AWS LB controller metrics (AWS)

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