import Prerequisites from "/snippets/standard-prerequisites.mdx" import SkillsCredentials from "/snippets/skills-credentials.mdx"
The Build dashboards skill turns AI agents into dashboard design experts:
- Design methodology: Decision-first dashboard design with overview-to-drilldown structure
- Chart types: Complete reference for statistic, time series, table, pie, log stream, heatmap, and more
- APL patterns: Golden signal queries, cardinality guardrails, and time-based aggregations
- Smart filters: Interactive filtering with cascading dropdowns
- API helpers: Scripts for creating, updating, and validating dashboards via the Axiom API
- Templates: Pre-built dashboard templates for common use cases
Use Build dashboards skill
The Build dashboards skill activates automatically when you ask your AI agent to:
- Create or design dashboards
- Migrate Splunk dashboards to Axiom
- Configure chart types and options
- Build smart filters for interactive filtering
Example prompts:
- "Create a service health dashboard for the API"
- "Build a dashboard with error rate, latency percentiles, and traffic trends"
- "Add a smart filter dropdown for filtering by environment"
- "Migrate this Splunk dashboard to Axiom"
Dashboard templates
The Build dashboards skill includes pre-built templates:
| Template | Use case |
|---|---|
service-overview.json |
Single-service on-call dashboard with heatmap |
service-overview-with-filters.json |
Single-service dashboard with smart filter dropdowns |
api-health.json |
HTTP API with traffic, errors, and latency |
blank.json |
Minimal dashboard skeleton for custom dashboards |