A read-only diagnostic skill for assessing and optimizing Grafana dashboards, Prometheus data sources, and alerting infrastructures.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install monitoring-dashboard-audit
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install monitoring-dashboard-audit using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Monitoring Dashboard Audit?
The Monitoring Dashboard Audit tool is a specialized framework designed to assess the health and efficiency of observability stacks. As part of the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, it provides a non-invasive way to evaluate Grafana dashboards, Prometheus metrics, and alerting logic without modifying live configurations. This skill is particularly valuable for network operations teams who need to ensure that their monitoring infrastructure provides accurate, actionable data while minimizing noise and technical debt.
By leveraging the read-only capabilities of this skill, developers and SREs can systematically identify performance bottlenecks in PromQL queries, detect coverage gaps in infrastructure monitoring, and validate the mathematical accuracy of SLA/SLO reporting. It acts as a comprehensive auditor that bridges the gap between raw telemetry and high-level operational visibility, ensuring that every component of the monitoring pipeline is performing optimally within Openclaw Skills environments.
Monitoring Dashboard Audit Use Cases
- Identifying monitoring coverage gaps where critical network devices lack dashboard visibility.
- Investigating alert fatigue by auditing notification rules that trigger too frequently.
- Validating SLA and SLO compliance reports to ensure availability metrics are calculated correctly.
- Performing post-incident reviews to determine why existing monitoring failed to detect a specific failure.
- Preparing for infrastructure migrations by ensuring monitoring configurations are compatible with new topology.
How Monitoring Dashboard Audit Works
- Inventory Discovery: The skill queries the Grafana API to list all dashboards and metadata, identifying stale or unorganized assets.
- Query Optimization: It extracts and analyzes PromQL expressions for efficiency, checking for proper rate function usage and high-cardinality labels.
- Alert Validation: The workflow evaluates alert rules for appropriate thresholds, evaluation intervals, and active notification channels.
- SLA/SLO Audit: It verifies that error budgets and availability calculations use the correct time windows and data sources.
- Health Assessment: The skill checks Prometheus scrape targets and remote write health to ensure data integrity and retention.
- Reporting: Findings are compiled into a structured coverage scorecard with prioritized recommendations for the team.
Monitoring Dashboard Audit Setup
To use this within Openclaw Skills, ensure you have API access to your monitoring stack. A Viewer-level service account or API token is required for Grafana, and the Prometheus HTTP API must be reachable.
# Example of verifying Grafana API connectivity
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_token>" https://your-grafana-url.com/api/health
# Example of checking Prometheus status connectivity
curl http://your-prometheus-url.com:9090/api/v1/status/tsdb
Monitoring Dashboard Audit Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Monitoring Dashboard Audit skill organizes assessment data into structured categories for clear reporting.
| Data Category | Metrics Evaluated | Metadata Taxonomy |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard Inventory | Panel counts, data sources | UID, Title, Folder, Last Updated |
| Query Performance | PromQL complexity, rate windows | Metric name, Cardinality, Aggregation labels |
| Alert Configuration | Thresholds, durations | Severity, Notification channel, Routing tree |
| SLA Reliability | Error budgets, SLI inputs | Time window, Maintenance exclusions, UTC sync |
| Source Health | Scrape status, WAL size | Target UP state, Remote write lag, Series count |
Monitoring Dashboard Audit Advanced Features
- Staleness detection for identifying dashboards not updated in over 180 days.
- Recording rule identification for expensive queries used across multiple panels.
- Multi-window burn rate analysis to validate sophisticated SLO alerting patterns.
- Cardinality explosion detection to prevent Prometheus performance degradation.
- Cross-system audit support covering both Grafana Unified Alerting and Prometheus-native rules through Openclaw Skills.
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