Oh thank you guys! I came to this post with the thinking of "dashboards are hard to build and when they exist it's hard to extend them". My boss is asking me from time to time to add yet another dashboard to grafana and all I can do is add another piece of specific inner working values because lack of traces - the "what" part. Up until now if was as if a car driver is asking for the average air volume intake yet in really he probably needs the "why" the air volume changes. The "probably" part is important here: if the driver is the test-driver then he needs the actual value, the what; is the driver the track performance guy he needs the why; and sometimes they need booth values because they feel more secure with more information. You guys just opened my eyes, thank you!

That’s a fantastic point. The unstated underlying request isn’t to see the same chart, the same way, every week/month/quarter. It’s actually: “Find any abnormalities in the data that could be threats or opportunities, and show me THAT — in a chart, table, email, or whatever medium make makes sense.”