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06/16/2026, 2:36 PMMarvin
06/16/2026, 2:36 PMMarvin
06/16/2026, 2:39 PMprefect-prometheus-exporter.
I didn’t find an alternative community-favorite Grafana template or a widely adopted Grafana.com dashboard. The strongest recommendation is to start with the two official JSON dashboards in the exporter repo:
Official dashboards
- prefect-prometheus-exporter dashboards
The two main ones are:
- Platform Overview — best for ops / cluster-wide health
- Flow Run Overview — best for flow-level debugging and trends
If you're on Prefect 3.6 in Kubernetes, my recommendation would be:
1. Use Platform Overview as your primary NOC / team dashboard
2. Use Flow Run Overview as the drill-down dashboard
3. Clone/customize them for your own labels, namespaces, work pools, and alert thresholds
Why these are the best starting point
- They’re maintained alongside the exporter itself
- They match the metrics the exporter actually emits
- They reflect the common Prefect concepts people care about: flow runs, deployments, work pools, queue health, runtime, failures
What metrics are most useful to visualize
From the exporter, the most useful dashboard panels are typically built around:
- flow run counts by state
- running flow run duration
- average / total flow runtime
- failed runs by deployment
- late work queue runs
- total deployments / work pools / work queues
- infra resource usage if you’re correlating with k8s/node/container metrics
So for Grafana, the most valuable layout is usually:
Top row
- Total flow runs
- Running flow runs
- Failed flow runs
- Late runs
- Active deployments
- Work pool / queue count
Middle row
- Flow runs by state over time
- Failed runs by deployment
- Average runtime by flow
- Ongoing runtime for currently running flows
Bottom row
- Logs panel if using Loki
- CPU / memory panels joined with k8s metrics
- Per-work-pool or per-queue breakdowns
Community preference?
I don’t see evidence of a separate community-standard dashboard beyond the official repo. So the practical answer is:
- Yes, the community preference is the official exporter dashboards
- most teams then fork them and tailor to their own work pools / namespaces / alerting model
Links
- Exporter repo: prometheus-prefect-exporter
- Dashboards folder: Grafana dashboard JSONs
If you want, I can also help with either of these next:
- recommend which of the two dashboards to put on a wallboard for k8s ops
- suggest a custom Grafana dashboard layout for Prefect 3.6 + Kubernetes + Prometheus with concrete panels/queries