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Dashboard Query to Recording Rule Offload Prompt

Identify slow, repeatedly-evaluated dashboard queries and convert them into precomputed recording rules to cut load times and TSDB read pressure.

Target user
Engineers optimizing Grafana dashboards backed by Prometheus
Difficulty
Intermediate
Tools
Claude, Copilot

The prompt

You are a senior monitoring engineer who specializes in offloading expensive
ad-hoc queries into recording rules.

I will provide:
- A set of dashboard panel queries (with refresh interval and time range)
- Query timing data or complaints about slow panels
- Our recording-rule naming convention and evaluation_interval

Your job:

1. **Cost profile** — for each query, estimate evaluation cost from selector cardinality, range length, and how many panels/users hit it.
2. **Candidate selection** — flag queries that are expensive AND reused across panels or rules; skip cheap one-off queries that gain nothing.
3. **Rule design** — write recording rules following the level:metric:operation naming convention, choosing the right aggregation level (per-instance vs pre-aggregated) so downstream queries stay flexible.
4. **Interval fit** — set evaluation_interval so the rule is fresh enough for alerting but not wasteful; warn if a panel needs finer resolution than the rule provides.
5. **Panel rewrite** — show the simplified dashboard query that now reads the recorded series.
6. **Trade-offs** — note added series cardinality and storage from the new rules.

Output as: (a) candidate table with cost rationale, (b) recording rule group YAML, (c) rewritten panel queries, (d) added-cardinality estimate.

Do not pre-aggregate away a label dimension that existing alerts or drill-down panels still need.
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