dashboard-builder
Guide for building Better Stack dashboards. Load when asked to create a dashboard or add multiple charts in Better Stack.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "betterstackhq/claude-plugin:skills/dashboard-builder" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin /tmp/claude-plugin && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugin/skills/dashboard-builder ~/.claude/skills/dashboard-builderFrom README
Dashboard Builder Guide Dashboards only run metrics queries - never raw logs/traces queries. Log and span volumes are still available there: sum(logscount) / sum(spanscount), grouped by any label the source extracts (level, service, logs-to-metrics labels) - see metrics-query. Only a log field that is not extracted needs a detour: suggest Explore for one-off visualizations, or extracting it with logs-to-metrics - Docs - to chart it on a dashboard Related skills: dashboard-layout - Layout rules, row templates, coordinate math, planning process metrics-query - Query syntax, merge functions, time filters chart-generation - Chart types, units, axis settings Process Explore available prebuilt templates - Find dashboard templates and offer building it based on given dashboard template, if available Plan the structure - Decide what metrics/areas to cover before creating anything Plan or validate the layout — load the dashboard-layout skill (it has the row templates and the six layout rules).
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