# dashboard-builder

> Claude/Codex skill by [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md) · 4 stars · Updated 2026-10-23

Guide for building Better Stack dashboards. Load when asked to create a dashboard or add multiple charts in Better Stack.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin /tmp/claude-plugin && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugin/skills/dashboard-builder ~/.claude/skills/dashboard-builder
```

## From 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).

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/claude-plugin/skills/dashboard-builder/
- GitHub: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin
- Author: [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md)

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