Grafana Dashboards for AI Agent Monitoring

Grafana is the standard tool for infrastructure visualization, and it works well for AI safety monitoring. By connecting Grafana to Authensor's metrics and audit data, you get real-time visibility into your agent fleet's safety posture.

Key Dashboards

Build three primary dashboards: operational overview, incident investigation, and policy effectiveness.

Operational overview shows real-time metrics: requests per second, policy evaluation latency (p50, p95, p99), deny rate, escalation rate, and active agent count. This is your at-a-glance view of system health.

Incident investigation provides drill-down capability. Filter by agent ID, time range, action type, and decision outcome. Display individual audit receipts with their full context. Use Grafana's log panel to show raw safety events.

Policy effectiveness tracks metrics over time: false positive rate, true positive rate for injection detection, policy rule hit rates, and the ratio of allows to denies per policy version. This helps you tune policies based on data.

Data Sources

Connect Grafana to two data sources:

Prometheus for time-series metrics. Authensor's control plane exposes a /metrics endpoint with counters for evaluations, denials, escalations, content safety detections, and latency histograms.

PostgreSQL for audit trail queries. Point Grafana at your receipts database (use a read replica) for historical analysis and incident investigation.

Panel Recommendations

Use time series panels for latency and throughput metrics. Use stat panels for current deny rate and active alerts. Use table panels for recent denials with agent ID, action type, and policy rule. Use heatmap panels for latency distribution over time.

Alert Rules

Configure Grafana alerts for: deny rate exceeding baseline by 2x (possible attack), p99 latency exceeding 100 milliseconds (performance degradation), error rate exceeding 1% (infrastructure issue), and zero evaluations for 5 minutes (possible outage).

Route alerts to your existing notification channels through Grafana's alerting system.

Template Variables

Add template variables for environment (production, staging), agent group, and time range. This lets your team quickly switch context between different agent populations and timeframes without maintaining separate dashboards.