From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Accessibility and presentation
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Accessibility and presentation
- [Instructor] In the previous video, we established a nice grid for our dashboard. It's now time to think about how we are presenting the data to the users. It is very easy to go wrong here. We are fond of favoring catchy graphics over real usability. The presentation of your dashboard matters, but how can you deliberately improve it? You can do so by embracing consistency and clarity. You can prevent user confusion by being consistent and clear in all your dashboards. For example, you should use common skills axis and units across all visualizations or panels. This will help users avoid making unnecessary mental conversions in their minds. Make sure that any deviations from the norm are clearly explained with proper labeling or visual cues. You should also make sure that missing data points are always handled in a clear manner in your dashboards. We discussed how to do this in Chapter 3. Next, how effective is your visualization? It is important to consider how the choices of panels…
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