
:guide-id: grafana-dashboards
:guide-title: Visualizing activities in dashboards
:guide-summary: Install the {project_name} Grafana dashboards to visualize the metrics that capture the status and activities of your deployment.
:guide-priority: 999
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:version: 26.2.5

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= Visualizing activities in dashboards

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{project_name} provides metrics to observe what is happening inside the deployment.
To understand how metrics evolve over time, it is helpful to collect and visualize them in graphs.

This guide provides instructions on how to visualize collected {project_name} metrics in a running Grafana instance.

== Prerequisites

* {project_name} metrics are enabled. Follow link:{links_observability_configuration-metrics_url}[{links_observability_configuration-metrics_name}] {section} for more details.
* Grafana instance is running and {project_name} metrics are collected into a Prometheus instance.
* For the HTTP request latency heatmaps to work, enable histograms for HTTP metrics by setting `http-metrics-histograms-enabled` to `true`.

== {project_name} Grafana dashboards

Grafana dashboards are distributed in the form of a JSON file that is imported into a Grafana instance.
JSON definitions of {project_name} Grafana dashboards are available in the https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-grafana-dashboard[keycloak/keycloak-grafana-dashboard GitHub repository].

Follow these steps to download JSON file definitions.

. Identify the branch from `keycloak-grafana-dashboards` to use from the following table.
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|{project_name} version |`keycloak-grafana-dashboards` branch

|>= 26.1
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. Clone the GitHub repository
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. The dashboards are available in the directory `keycloak-grafana-dashboard/dashboards`.

The following sections describe the purpose of each dashboard.

=== {project_name} troubleshooting dashboard

This dashboard is available in the JSON file: `keycloak-troubleshooting-dashboard.json`.

On the top of the dashboard, graphs display the service level indicators as defined in link:{links_observability_keycloak-service-level-indicators_url}[{links_observability_keycloak-service-level-indicators_name}].
This dashboard can be also used while troubleshooting a {project_name} deployment following the link:{links_observability_metrics-for-troubleshooting_url}[{links_observability_metrics-for-troubleshooting_name}] {section}, for example, when SLI graphs do not show expected results.

.Troubleshooting dashboard
image::observability/keycloak-troubleshooting-grafana-dashboard.png[Troubleshooting dashboard]

=== Keycloak capacity planning dashboard

This dashboard is available in the JSON file: `keycloak-capacity-planning-dashboard.json`.

This dashboard shows metrics that are important when estimating the load handled by a {project_name} deployment.
For example, it shows the number of password validations or login flows performed by {project_name}.
For more detail on these metrics, see the {section} link:{links_observability_metrics-for-troubleshooting-keycloak_url}[{links_observability_metrics-for-troubleshooting-keycloak_name}].

NOTE:  {project_name} event metrics must be enabled for this dashboard to work correctly.  To enable them, see the {section} link:{links_observability_event-metrics_url}[{links_observability_event-metrics_name}].

.Capacity planning dashboard
image::observability/keycloak-capacity-planning-dashboard.png[Capacity planning dashboard]

== Import a dashboard

. Open the dashboard page from the left Grafana menu.
. Click *New* and *Import*.
. Click *Upload dashboard JSON file* and select the JSON file of the dashboard you want to import.
. Pick your Prometheus datasource.
. Click *Import*.

== Export a dashboard

Exporting a dashboard to JSON format may be useful. For example, you may want to suggest a change in our dashboard repository.

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. Open a dashboard you would like to export.
. Click *share* (image:observability/grafana-share-icon.svg[Grafana share icon]) in the top left corner next to the dashboard name.
. Click the *Export* tab.
. Enable *Export for sharing externally*.
. Click either *Save to file* or *View JSON* and *Copy to Clipboard* according to where you want to store the resulting JSON.
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== Further reading

Continue reading on how to connect traces to dashboard in the link:{links_observability_exemplars_url}[{links_observability_exemplars_name}] {section}.


