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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

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Prerequisites

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Install build dashboards skill

Choose one of the following ways to install the build dashboards skill:
Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:
npx skills add axiomhq/skills

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Configure Axiom credentials

All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at ~/.axiom.toml:
~/.axiom.toml
[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
Replace API_TOKEN with the Axiom API token you have generated. For added security, store the API token in an environment variable.Replace ORGANIZATION_ID with your organization ID. For more information, see Determine organization ID.For token creation and scoping guidance, see Token hygiene for AI agents.

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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”

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Dashboard templates

The build dashboards skill includes pre-built templates:
TemplateUse case
service-overview.jsonSingle-service on-call dashboard with heatmap
service-overview-with-filters.jsonSingle-service dashboard with smart filter dropdowns
api-health.jsonHTTP API with traffic, errors, and latency
blank.jsonMinimal dashboard skeleton for custom dashboards