Build dashboards skill

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

Prerequisites#

• Create an Axiom account.
• Create a dataset in Axiom where you send your data.
• Create an API token in Axiom with permissions to ingest data to the dataset you have created.

Install Axiom Skills#

Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:

npx skills add axiomhq/skills

Configure Axiom credentials#

All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at ~/.axiom.toml:

[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
edge_url = "AXIOM_DOMAIN"

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: