hyperhive/nix/host-modules/swarm-grafana/dashboards/forge.json
atlas 20135962de grafana: rank the by-label panel as bars, and stop calling it open issues
Two findings on one panel, both from mara.

Form: 24 label series drawn as overlapping timeseries lines is
unreadable by construction. The panel is a current-count ranking, not a
time evolution, so it becomes a horizontal bar gauge on an instant
sort_desc query -- identity on the axis, magnitude in the bar, and a
fixed colour because colour was carrying no information that the axis
was not already carrying.

Title: the metric counts open AND closed issues. Measured, not assumed
-- the largest single label reads 1619 while gitea_issues_open reads
117, and no label can outnumber the set it is a subset of. The panel had
been asserting the opposite since it was written.
2026-08-28 13:23:25 +02:00

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{
"title": "hyperhive · forge (content)",
"uid": "hyperhive-swarm-forge",
"description": "An INVENTORY board, not a service-health board — and the difference is the first thing to know about it. Its three siblings (metrics store, log store, authelia) answer 'is this service healthy': request rates, error rates, latency. Forgejo's exporter publishes no such series; what it publishes is a census of what the forge CONTAINS. So every number here is a gauge of stored things, sampled at scrape time. Nothing on this board can tell you the forge is slow or erroring, and a flat line means nobody created anything, not that scraping stopped — check the metrics-store board for that. Series are labelled service.name, NOT job; there is no job label in this store.",
"editable": true,
"refresh": "5m",
"schemaVersion": 39,
"tags": ["hyperhive", "swarm", "forge", "content"],
"time": { "from": "now-7d", "to": "now" },
"timezone": "utc",
"version": 1,
"templating": { "list": [] },
"panels": [
{
"id": 1,
"type": "stat",
"title": "Repositories",
"description": "Every repo the forge holds, including agent config repos — which is most of them on a busy hive, so this tracks agent count more closely than it tracks project count.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
"gridPos": { "h": 4, "w": 4, "x": 0, "y": 0 },
"targets": [
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"expr": "gitea_repositories",
"instant": true,
"legendFormat": "repos"
}
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}
},
{
"id": 2,
"type": "stat",
"title": "Users",
"description": "Forge accounts. Agents hold one each, so this is operators plus the live agent roster — a drop without a matching agent teardown is worth a look.",
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},
{
"id": 3,
"type": "stat",
"title": "Organizations",
"description": "Orgs — the forge's coarsest grouping, and on a hyperhive forge the line between agent-owned repos and everything else. A change is a structural decision someone made rather than activity; how often that happens is a fact about this hive's projects, not something the panel can assume.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
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{
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},
{
"id": 4,
"type": "stat",
"title": "Issues open",
"description": "Open issues across every repo. The one number on this board that behaves like a backlog gauge — rising means work is being filed faster than it is closed.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
"gridPos": { "h": 4, "w": 4, "x": 12, "y": 0 },
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"expr": "gitea_issues_open",
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}
},
{
"id": 5,
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"description": "Cumulative closed issues. Only ever rises, so read it as throughput-to-date rather than as a current state.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
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},
{
"id": 6,
"type": "stat",
"title": "Releases",
"description": "Tagged releases across every repo. Cumulative, so it only rises; the rate is the signal, not the level. Whether zero is normal here depends entirely on how this hive's projects ship — a board shipped to every hive cannot know that, so read a CHANGE rather than a value.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
"gridPos": { "h": 4, "w": 4, "x": 20, "y": 0 },
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"id": 10,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Issues: open vs closed",
"description": "The two together, because either alone misleads. Open flat while closed climbs is a backlog being worked down; both climbing together is a backlog growing while work happens. ⚠️ A vertical step in closed is a batch operation of some kind — a bulk close, an import, a repo removal — and is not distinguishable here from a burst of real work; the issue list is what tells them apart.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
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{
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"tooltip": { "mode": "multi", "sort": "desc" }
}
},
{
"id": 11,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Repositories and users",
"description": "Both climb when an agent is created — a config repo and an account arrive together. So the interesting reading is when they DIVERGE: repos without users means repos created by hand, users without repos means accounts provisioned for something that never got one.",
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},
{
"id": 20,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Discussion volume",
"description": "Comments and review comments across the forge. The closest thing here to an activity signal, and still a cumulative count rather than a rate — a steepening slope is more conversation, a flat stretch is a quiet period, and neither says anything about whether the forge is up.",
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"refId": "A",
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"expr": "gitea_comments",
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},
{
"refId": "B",
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"expr": "gitea_attachments",
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}
},
{
"id": 21,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Automation surface",
"description": "Webhooks and their queued delivery tasks. Worth a glance when something that should have triggered did not: a hooktask count that climbs and never settles is deliveries backing up rather than being consumed. The webhook count itself is whatever this hive has wired — it says nothing on its own, and a jump in it is someone's integration change.",
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},
{
"id": 30,
"type": "bargauge",
"title": "Issues by label — every issue ever, ranked",
"description": "How the whole issue corpus is distributed across labels, biggest first. NOT the open backlog: this metric counts open and closed issues alike, which is checkable from this board alone — the top label here is far larger than the Issues open stat beside it, and no single label can outnumber the issues it is a subset of. So read it as the shape of what the project has worked on, not as what is left. It is also a RANKING of one moment rather than a time series: the label set is as wide as the tracker's, so one line per label is unreadable by construction, and the history of any single label is an ad-hoc query, not a panel. Colour carries no meaning here; the axis carries the identity. If the panel is empty, check whether the forgejo process restarted since [metrics] last changed — a merged config alone does not enable a series, and an absent series never says why it is absent.",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
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{
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"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "@datasourceUid@" },
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}