Dashboards: RED and USE
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In this lesson
build dashboards that answer a question.
Planned topics
- RED for services: Rate, Errors, Duration (percentiles).
- USE for resources: Utilization, Saturation, Errors (CPU, memory, pools, queues).
- One dashboard per service with the same layout, plus a business overview (orders per minute, failures).
- Top row shows health at a glance; details below; link to traces and runbooks.
- A dashboard nobody reads is decoration; delete it.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
layout: row 1 RED panels, row 2 JVM (heap, GC), row 3 dependencies (DB pool, Kafka lag).
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What do RED and USE cover?
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RED: services; USE: resources.
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