diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
index 4c4b159b..26c0d8ae 100644
--- a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana.nix
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ let
       [
         "agents.json"
         "authelia.json"
+        "bao.json"
         "claude-usage.json"
         "forge.json"
         "logstore.json"
diff --git a/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/bao.json b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/bao.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..931f5308
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/bao.json
@@ -0,0 +1,569 @@
+{
+  "title": "hyperhive · openbao",
+  "uid": "hyperhive-bao",
+  "description": "The swarm's secret store. Two things to know before editing: the metric prefix is vault_, not openbao_ — the fork kept upstream's names, and a panel built on the name you would guess renders perfectly and shows nothing. And a SEALED store emits almost nothing: only the top row works before an operator has run `bao operator init`, everything below it is empty until then and that is the expected reading, not a broken query. Targets are labelled service.name, NOT job; there is no job label in this store. Counters are counts over the dashboard range rather than per-second rates, because a store this quiet rates to exactly zero.",
+  "editable": true,
+  "refresh": "1m",
+  "schemaVersion": 39,
+  "tags": [
+    "hyperhive",
+    "swarm",
+    "bao",
+    "secrets"
+  ],
+  "time": {
+    "from": "now-24h",
+    "to": "now"
+  },
+  "timezone": "utc",
+  "version": 1,
+  "templating": {
+    "list": []
+  },
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Seal state",
+      "description": "SEALED means the store is up but refusing every read — the state it boots into, and the state it returns to on restart unless auto-unseal is configured. The max() is load-bearing: once unsealed there are two vault_core_unsealed series and the cluster=\"\" one stays 0 forever, so a bare selector reads SEALED on a healthy store.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "max(vault_core_unsealed{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"})",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "seal"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "thresholds"
+          },
+          "mappings": [
+            {
+              "type": "value",
+              "options": {
+                "0": {
+                  "text": "SEALED",
+                  "color": "red",
+                  "index": 0
+                },
+                "1": {
+                  "text": "unsealed",
+                  "color": "green",
+                  "index": 1
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          ],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": 1
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "background",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Uptime",
+      "description": "Time since the openbao process started. Read it beside the seal state: a restart re-seals the store, so a short uptime and a SEALED panel are one event rather than two problems.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 6,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "time() - process_start_time_seconds{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "uptime"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "s",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "fixed",
+            "fixedColor": "text"
+          },
+          "mappings": []
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Goroutines",
+      "description": "A Go runtime metric, so it is present even while sealed — which makes it the panel that distinguishes a store with nothing to say from a scrape that is not arriving at all. No data here means the collector is not reaching the metrics listener.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "go_goroutines{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "goroutines"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "fixed",
+            "fixedColor": "text"
+          },
+          "mappings": []
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Requests (range)",
+      "description": "vault_core_handle_request_count over the dashboard range — every API call the store served, unseal attempts included. The summary's _count series, not the summary itself. Zero on a sealed store, and zero is the honest answer there rather than an absent panel.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 18,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(increase(vault_core_handle_request_count{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}[$__range])) or vector(0)",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "requests"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "fixed",
+            "fixedColor": "text"
+          },
+          "mappings": []
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 10,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Seal operations (range)",
+      "description": "Encrypt and decrypt calls against the seal wrapper — on this swarm a TPM through PKCS#11, so each one is a round trip to hardware. These are counters with no _total suffix. A climbing decrypt count with a flat request count means something is re-reading the barrier rather than serving clients.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(increase(vault_seal_encrypt{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}[$__range])) or vector(0)",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "encrypt"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "sum(increase(vault_seal_decrypt{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}[$__range])) or vector(0)",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "decrypt"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "mappings": []
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value_and_name",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 11,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Raft peers",
+      "description": "Voting members of the store's raft cluster. This swarm runs a single node, so 1 is the expected value and anything else means a peer was added — or that this node no longer sees itself as part of the cluster it stores data for.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "vault_raft_peers{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "instant": true,
+          "legendFormat": "peers"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "fixed",
+            "fixedColor": "text"
+          },
+          "mappings": []
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "textMode": "value",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 20,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Request latency",
+      "description": "Quantiles openbao computes itself — a summary, so the store picked the buckets and a histogram_quantile() is neither needed nor possible here. Units are MILLISECONDS: vault's timers report ms, and reading them as seconds understates the store by three orders of magnitude.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 8
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "vault_core_handle_request{\"service.name\"=\"bao\",quantile=\"0.99\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "p99"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "vault_core_handle_request{\"service.name\"=\"bao\",quantile=\"0.5\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "p50"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "ms",
+          "decimals": 1,
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {
+            "drawStyle": "line",
+            "lineWidth": 1,
+            "fillOpacity": 0,
+            "showPoints": "never",
+            "spanNulls": false,
+            "axisSoftMin": 0
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom",
+          "showLegend": true,
+          "calcs": []
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "multi",
+          "sort": "desc"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 21,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Leases",
+      "description": "Outstanding leases, and the irrevocable ones beside them. The second line should sit at zero: an irrevocable lease is one the store gave up trying to revoke, so a credential somewhere outlives what issued it and no amount of waiting will clean it up.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 8
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "vault_expire_num_leases{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "leases"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "vault_expire_num_irrevocable_leases{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "irrevocable"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "short",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "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": 30,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Heap in use",
+      "description": "go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes. Present while sealed, so it is a live line even on a store that is serving nothing — a sawtooth is normal Go behaviour, a monotonic climb on an idle store is not.",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 6,
+        "w": 24,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 16
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "datasource": {
+            "type": "prometheus",
+            "uid": "@datasourceUid@"
+          },
+          "expr": "go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes{\"service.name\"=\"bao\"}",
+          "legendFormat": "heap"
+        }
+      ],
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "unit": "bytes",
+          "decimals": 1,
+          "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"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}