Grafana Labs made a Taylor Swift dashboard

Summary

It’s official: Taylor has entered her data visualization era. Today, the pop icon and global superstar dropped The Life of a Showgirl, her 12th studio album. And in the lead-up to this monumental event, a group of Swifties here at Grafana Labs had a thought: what better way to celebrate than with a Grafana dashboard?From there, the group got to work and used Grafana Assistant — an AI-powered agent in Grafana Cloud that helps you query and build dashboards faster using natural language — to create one of the most dazzling dashboards we’ve seen to date.So go grab your favorite cardigan and settle in, because in this post, we dive into a new Grafana Cloud dashboard that helps you track career milestones, analyze album vibes (is Lover really more danceable than 1989?!), and visualize all the eras of the one and only Taylor Swift. First, a quick look at our dashboard creators (and why they chose Assistant)One of the reasons Grafana Assistant is so powerful is that it enables a wide range of users, observability experts and novices alike, to more easily navigate to the right places in Grafana and build beautiful dashboards. This is exactly why the team of Grafanistas shown below — Ivana, Sven, Belyn, and Maggie — chose Grafana Assistant for this Taylor-themed project: to ensure ease of use and that they’d all be empowered to contribute and create, regardless of their roles or experience levels with Grafana.If you’re interested in learning more about Assistant, and how our own engineering and product teams are using it to debug, query, and build faster, check out this blog post. Are You Ready For It? A tour of the Taylor Swift dashboardThe team used Assistant to build virtually every component of their Swift-acular dashboard, ranging from simple text panels to dynamic, data-driven charts. The process was highly iterative; they often started with an auto-generated dashboard and then refined it using natural language.The end result is a vibrant dashboard consisting of four d...