Modern cloud and container orchestration makes it super easy to collect tons of metrics for your infrastructure and applications. Unfortunately it is not always obvious how to reduce the information flow, and visualize it.

Let's look at some good practices for creating effective dashboards for high level overviews and day to day devops activities. 

Based on real life experience using Grafana with Telegraf and Influxdb for managing 500+ servers whilst migrating from on prem to AWS.