# 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

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## Use Build dashboards skill [#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 [#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     |