Custom Dashboards with Grafana

One of the unique features of smoxy's Real User Monitoring is our open source approach to data visualization. While smoxy provides a built-in dashboard, we understand that every organization has unique monitoring needs. That's why we've created an open source reference implementation showing how to fetch your RUM data via API and visualize it in Grafana.

Why Custom Dashboards?

Your Data, Your Way

While the smoxy RUM dashboard provides built-in analytics, you might want to:

✨ Customize visualizations to match your team's specific needs ✨ Integrate with existing monitoring tools and observability platforms ✨ Create custom alerts based on your performance SLAs ✨ Build executive dashboards with company-specific KPIs ✨ Combine RUM data with application metrics, business metrics, or other data sources ✨ Self-host dashboards within your own infrastructure

smoxy Keeps Collecting, You Control the Visualization

The beauty of this approach:

  • smoxy handles the hard part: Collecting, validating, and storing billions of RUM data points reliably

  • You control the presentation: Build dashboards that fit your workflow, tools, and requirements

  • No vendor lock-in: Your data is accessible via standard APIs

  • No extra cost: RUM data and API access are included with your smoxy account

Open Source Grafana Dashboard

We've created an open source reference implementation that shows you how to build custom dashboards with your RUM data.

Repository: github.com/smoxy-eu/rum-dashboard

The repository includes:

  • Pre-built Grafana dashboards

  • Docker Compose setup for quick deployment

  • Complete API integration examples

Getting Started: Visit the repository and follow the README for setup instructions and examples.

Comparison: Built-in vs. Custom Dashboards

Feature
smoxy Built-in Dashboard
Open Source Grafana Dashboard

Setup

Instant, no configuration

10 minutes with Docker

Customization

Fixed layout

Fully customizable

Data Sources

RUM only

Combine with any data source

Alerts

No Alerts

Custom alert rules

Hosting

smoxy cloud

Your infrastructure

Best For

Quick insights, daily monitoring

Advanced analysis, custom needs

Recommendation: Use both! The built-in dashboard for quick checks, and custom dashboards for deep analysis and team-specific views.

Ready to get started? Visit the repository: github.com/smoxy-eu/rum-dashboard

For questions about RUM setup or configuration, see Setting Up Real User Monitoring or contact [email protected].

Last updated

Was this helpful?