Dashboard Design

A dashboard that shows everything shows nothing. Effective monitoring dashboards are layered: the top level shows system health at a glance (green/yellow/red for each agent and each coordination metric), the drill-down shows trend lines for the last 7 days, and the detail level shows individual data points for investigation.

The system health dashboard has four quadrants. Top-left: Agent Health Grid — 20 cells, one per agent, color-coded by health status. Green: all metrics within baseline. Yellow: one or more metrics between 1-2 standard deviations. Red: any metric beyond 2 standard deviations or agent unresponsive. Top-right: Coordination Efficiency trend line — the master metric plotted over 30 days. Bottom-left: Active Alerts — sorted by severity, showing what needs attention right now. Bottom-right: Throughput Heat Map — tasks completed per agent per hour, making bottlenecks visually obvious.

The goal: a coordinator should assess system health in under 10 seconds from the top-level dashboard. If they need to investigate, the drill-down is one click away.