Dashboard inspiration and finding precursors to system performance issues | Denver User Group

Justin Allen · 2026-01-28T22:39:39.701722Z

Hello,I hope this is the right place to ask these questions and if not, I'm happy to move them elsewhere. I'm fairly new to LM and looking to get the most value possible from it. We are a fairly small (?) shop in the K-12 space with around 70 routers, 250 switches, many UPS's, wireless AP's, OT devices, etc. I'm looking for any guidance and maybe some examples of dashboards you all have built that are helpful in visualizing either health or alerts to call attention without having to dive into multiple dashes. In my own mind, I foresaw potentially having a "slideshow" for lack of a better term where each dash would get more and more detailed on things like system and network performance as it progressed. However, I'm not sure that's the best design strategy. Our remote sites are spread throughout the Denver and Aurora metro areas and often when we have sites dropping, it's because of a dirty and overburdened power grid so I'm looking for ways to overlay the Xcel outage map on top of Google maps to correlate the two somehow. I also feel like any dash can't be too "busy" and require scrolling if it's intent is to be somewhat of a NOC control center so they have to be very simple right? Any advice any of you intelligent people might have would be greatly appreciated!On a different topic, if I can be so greedy, I'm also looking to shift left as much as possible in identifying issues before users do. I've been using things like OSPF neighbor adjacencies which give me a simple up/down but I'm curious on how deep I can go with my metrics. My thinking is that if I can poll something like optic light level, FCS/CRC errors that I can predict an issue before it occurs. This is most likely very vendor dependent based on the MIB trees etc but can I ask how you all are monitoring for precursors to actual issues with network or systems?

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