48. Dashboards — your Grafana boards, rendered natively

Dashboards in the sidebar (https://ops.daalu.io/dashboards) shows your Grafana dashboards inside Daalu — no iframe, no Grafana detour. Grafana stays the catalog (the list of boards and each board’s panel definitions); Daalu renders the panels itself by running their PromQL and LogQL against your own Prometheus and Loki. You can also have the AI write a brand-new dashboard from a one-line prompt.

How it works

Grafana is the store. Daalu reads the list of dashboards and each board’s panel JSON through your Grafana integration. Boards you create in Grafana appear here; boards Daalu’s AI creates land back in Grafana, so both tools always show the same list.
Your data plane fills the panels. Panel queries run against the metric and log stores co-located with that Grafana — through your cluster tunnel when the stack lives in your own cluster. Your series never pass through a third party.
Template variables just work. Grafana boards full of $namespace, $cluster, $__rate_interval render correctly — Daalu expands the variables and macros before querying, so the standard Kubernetes mixin boards light up without editing.

Prerequisite: the Grafana integration

The page needs a connected Grafana integration (URL + API token) so Daalu can read your catalog. If it isn’t connected yet, the page shows a Grafana not connected banner pointing you at Managed infra → Integrations. Chapter 31 covers the setup; if your Grafana is inside a connected cluster, tick the tunnel option and use its in-cluster URL as usual.

Browsing and reading a board

The page lists every dashboard, grouped by Grafana folder, with its tags. Click one to open it:

Panels render natively — time series, stats, tables, and log panels.
A time-range switcher re-runs every panel over the window you pick.
Each panel queries live — what you see is your store’s answer right now, not a cached screenshot.

Create with AI

The Create with AI button opens a prompt modal:

What to show — describe the board in plain language, e.g. Cluster-wide CPU and memory by namespace, plus pod restart counts. Example prompts are one click away.
Title (optional) and Data — Metrics (Prometheus), Logs (Loki), or Mixed.
Click Generate. Daalu’s AI writes a complete Grafana dashboard (PromQL/LogQL panels, layout, units), saves it into your Grafana, and opens it here.

Because the AI writes a real Grafana dashboard rather than something proprietary, you can refine it later in Grafana itself — or ask the AI for another one.

Where dashboards show up elsewhere

The cluster detail page (chapter 17) shows a related dashboards section under the health overview.
The Managed infra observability rows link into the same boards.
For GPU fleets, the AI Factory page (chapter 50) has its own native GPU panels built on the same data plane.