Dashboards & APM

Dashboards let you collect your most important Honeybadger Insights charts and data in one place so you can see what’s happening with your app at a glance. Instead of running queries repeatedly or jumping between pages, dashboards give you a single view of your application’s health and performance, helping you spot trends and fix issues.

Getting started

To create a dashboard, navigate to the Dashboards section in your Honeybadger project, click the dashboard selector in the top left, then click the + button next to the dashboard you want to add.

Project Overview dashboard

The Project Overview dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your application’s health and performance. It’s automatically added to every new Honeybadger project, giving you immediate visibility into alarms, deployments, errors, uptime checks, and check-ins.

Automatic dashboards

To help you get started quickly, Honeybadger provides pre-configured automatic dashboards with relevant widgets for common frameworks and platforms. These dashboards are automatically populated when you enable instrumentation for supported platforms.

Getting started with automatic dashboards

To enable automatic dashboards for your applications, follow these steps:

1. Enable Honeybadger Insights instrumentation in your client library (e.g., Ruby, Elixir, PHP, etc.)
2. Deploy your application with the updated configuration
3. Navigate to the Dashboards section in your Honeybadger project, click Create dashboard, select the dashboard you want, then click Add dashboard.

Your dashboard will begin to populate with data as soon as your application starts sending events to Honeybadger.

Customizing dashboards

You can customize any dashboard by clicking the … menu in the top right corner of the dashboard. From there, you can:

• Edit - Modify the dashboard layout and widgets
• Clone - Create a copy of the dashboard
• Set as default dashboard - Make this dashboard your default view
• Set default time range - Configure the default time period
• Edit source - View and edit the dashboard’s YAML configuration
• Delete dashboard - Remove the dashboard

Editing widgets

In edit mode, you can configure any widget by clicking the … menu on the widget and selecting Edit widget. This opens the widget editor where you can modify the query, change the visualization type, and preview results before saving.

Editing dashboard source

For advanced customization, select Edit source to view and modify the entire dashboard configuration as YAML. This is useful for:

• Making bulk changes without navigating the UI
• Copying dashboards between projects
• Sharing configurations with team members

The editor validates your configuration against a predefined schema and displays helpful error messages if something’s wrong. Stream IDs are automatically converted to human-readable names, so you don’t need to manually update identifiers when moving configurations between projects.

Available dashboards

Project Overview Monitor deployments, errors, uptime, check-ins, and performance

Rails Track Rails requests, controllers, queries, and cache

Puma Monitor Puma web server performance

Autotuner Track Ruby memory optimization metrics

Karafka Monitor Kafka message processing

Sidekiq Track background job processing

Phoenix Monitor Phoenix and LiveView performance

Oban Track Elixir background jobs

Laravel Monitor Laravel application metrics

Django Track Django application performance

Flask Monitor Flask application metrics

Celery Track Celery task performance

Heroku Monitor Heroku application and Postgres

Next steps

• Learn more about Honeybadger Insights
• Try BadgerQL to explore your data and create custom dashboard widgets
• Set up Insights Alarms to turn your queries into actionable alerts
• Send additional data from your infrastructure to Honeybadger