diff --git a/docs/swarm/services.md b/docs/swarm/services.md
index 1ef6fa80..362a7a90 100644
--- a/docs/swarm/services.md
+++ b/docs/swarm/services.md
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ kept.
 - `gateway`: the gateway nginx on each hive's host: requests per second, connections by state, and accepted against handled connections.
 - `collector`: what the hive and swarm OTEL collectors accept, refuse, export and queue, with queue depth against capacity.
 - `logstore`, `metricstore`: health of the log store and the metrics store.
+- `grafana`: Grafana itself. Dashboards and data sources, alert instances firing, requests by status and their latency, alert rule evaluations and failures, sign-ins, database connections, memory and goroutines.
 
 A new panel can read "No data" until its source exists: the push and commit
 counters on `controller` appear after the first push webhook, the refused
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
index ca17fd04..f9ca5d0d 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ let
         "egress.json"
         "forge.json"
         "gateway.json"
+        "grafana.json"
         "logstore.json"
         "metricstore.json"
         "queue.json"
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/grafana.json b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/grafana.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86f42ae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/grafana.json
@@ -0,0 +1,649 @@
+{
+  "title": "hyperhive · grafana",
+  "uid": "hyperhive-swarm-grafana",
+  "description": "The swarm's Grafana: what it serves, how fast, its alerting and its embedded authorization store.",
+  "tags": ["hyperhive", "swarm", "grafana"],
+  "editable": true,
+  "refresh": "1m",
+  "schemaVersion": 39,
+  "time": {
+    "from": "now-24h",
+    "to": "now"
+  },
+  "timezone": "utc",
+  "version": 1,
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Version",
+      "description": "The Grafana version running.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "grafana_build_info",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "{{version}}"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "thresholds"
+          },
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": ["lastNotNull"],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Dashboards",
+      "description": "Dashboards Grafana holds.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 6,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "grafana_stat_totals_dashboard{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "dashboards"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "thresholds"
+          },
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": ["lastNotNull"],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Data sources",
+      "description": "Data sources configured.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(grafana_stat_totals_datasource{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"})",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "data sources"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "thresholds"
+          },
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": ["lastNotNull"],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Alert instances firing",
+      "description": "Alert instances in the alerting state.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 18,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(grafana_alerting_alerts{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\", state=\"alerting\"}) or vector(0)",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "alerting"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "thresholds"
+          },
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 1
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": ["lastNotNull"],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Requests by status",
+      "description": "HTTP requests Grafana served per second, by status code.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum by (status_code) (rate(grafana_http_request_duration_seconds_count{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+          "legendFormat": "{{status_code}}"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "reqps",
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Request latency",
+      "description": "Request duration, p50 and p95.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.5, sum by (le) (rate(grafana_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval])))",
+          "legendFormat": "p50"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.95, sum by (le) (rate(grafana_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval])))",
+          "legendFormat": "p95"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "s",
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 7,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Alert rule evaluations",
+      "description": "Rule evaluations per second, and how many of them failed.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 12
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(rate(grafana_alerting_rule_evaluations_total{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+          "legendFormat": "evaluations"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(rate(grafana_alerting_rule_evaluation_failures_total{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+          "legendFormat": "failures"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "ops",
+          "decimals": 2,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 8,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Logins",
+      "description": "Sign-ins per second by method.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 12
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(rate(grafana_api_login_oauth_total{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+          "legendFormat": "oauth"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(rate(grafana_api_login_post_total{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+          "legendFormat": "password"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "ops",
+          "decimals": 3,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 9,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Database connections",
+      "description": "Connections to Grafana's own database.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 20
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "grafana_database_conn_open{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "open"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "grafana_database_conn_in_use{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "in use"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "C",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "grafana_database_conn_idle{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "idle"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 10,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Memory and goroutines",
+      "description": "Resident memory (bytes) and goroutines of the Grafana process.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 20
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "process_resident_memory_bytes{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "resident memory"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "go_goroutines{\"service.name\"=\"grafana\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "goroutines"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 10,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}