diff --git a/monitoring/dashboards/README b/monitoring/dashboards/README
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+The files in this directory use a library for generating grafana dashboards
+that at time of writing I'm not at liberty to share. Unfortunately, I don't have a better option.
+So feel free to make changes, but I'll need to be the one to regenerate them.
diff --git a/monitoring/dashboards/overview.jsonnet b/monitoring/dashboards/overview.jsonnet
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+local grafana = import "grafana.libsonnet";
+
+local services = [
+  "restreamer",
+  "downloader",
+  "backfiller",
+  "cutter",
+  "thrimshim",
+  "sheetsync",
+];
+
+local service_status_table = {
+  local refId(n) = std.char(std.codepoint('A') + n),
+  type: "table",
+  targets: [
+    {
+      expr: 'sum(up{job="%s"}) by (instance)' % services[i],
+      intervalFactor: 1,
+      format: "table",
+      refId: refId(i),
+      legendFormat: "",
+      instant: true,
+    }
+    for i in std.range(0, std.length(services) - 1)
+  ],
+  styles: [
+    // hidden cols
+    {
+      unit: "short",
+      type: "hidden",
+      alias: "",
+      decimals: 2,
+      colors: [
+        "rgba(245, 54, 54, 0.9)",
+        "rgba(237, 129, 40, 0.89)",
+        "rgba(50, 172, 45, 0.97)",
+      ],
+      colorMode: null,
+      pattern: name,
+      dateFormat: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss",
+      thresholds: [],
+      mappingType: 1,
+    }
+    for name in ["__name__", "job", "Time"]
+  ] + [
+    // service cols
+    {
+      unit: "short",
+      type: "string",
+      alias: services[i],
+      decimals: 2,
+      colors: [
+        "rgba(245, 54, 54, 0.9)",
+        "rgba(237, 129, 40, 0.89)",
+        "rgba(50, 172, 45, 0.97)",
+      ],
+      colorMode: "cell",
+      pattern: "Value #%s" % refId(i),
+      dateFormat: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss",
+      thresholds: [
+        "0.5",
+        "0.5",
+      ],
+      mappingType: 1,
+      valueMaps: [
+        {
+          value: "0",
+          text: "DOWN",
+        },
+        {
+          value: "1",
+          text: "UP",
+        },
+      ],
+    } for i in std.range(0, std.length(services) - 1)
+  ],
+  transform: "table",
+  pageSize: null,
+  showHeader: true,
+  columns: [],
+  scroll: true,
+  fontSize: "100%",
+  sort: {
+    col: 0,
+    desc: true,
+  },
+  links: [],
+};
+
+grafana.dashboard({
+  name: "Overview",
+  uid: "rjd405mn",
+
+  rows: [
+
+    {
+      panels: [
+        // First row - immediate status heads-up
+        [
+          {
+            name: "Service Status by Node",
+            span: 2 * grafana.span.third,
+            custom: service_status_table,
+          },
+          {
+            name: "Error log rate",
+            axis: {min: 0, label: "logs / sec"},
+            display: "bars",
+            expressions: {
+              "{{job}} {{level}}({{module}}:{{function}})": |||
+                sum(irate(log_count_total{level!="INFO"}[2m])) by (job, level, module, function) > 0
+              |||,
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+        // Second row - core "business" metrics
+        [
+          {
+            name: "Segments downloaded",
+            axis: {min: 0, label: "segments / sec"},
+            expressions: {
+              "{{stream}}({{variant}}) live capture":
+                'sum(rate(segments_downloaded_total[2m])) by (stream, variant)',
+              "{{stream}}({{variant}}) backfilled":
+                'sum(rate(segments_backfilled_total[2m])) by (stream, variant)',
+            },
+          },
+          {
+            name: "Successful requests by endpoint",
+            axis: {min: 0, label: "requests / sec"},
+            expressions: {
+              "{{method}} {{endpoint}}":
+                'sum(rate(http_request_latency_all_count{status="200"}[2m])) by (endpoint, method)',
+            },
+          },
+          {
+            name: "Database events by state",
+            axis: {min: 0, label: "events"},
+            tooltip: "Not implemented", // TODO
+            expressions: {"Not implemented": "0"},
+          },
+        ],
+      ],
+    },
+
+  ],
+
+})