While working around non-prod environments, I kept running into one issue, lack of visibility into actual usage vs assumed usage.
We tend to keep dev/staging infra “ready,” but rarely question:
are these environments really being used at that level?
Tried building a Grafana dashboard combining workload utilization, environment-level signals and rough cost indicators.
Nothing fancy, just trying to make decisions a bit more data-backed.
Shared what I explored here:
https://dev.to/muskan_8abedcc7e12/grafana-dashboards-for-non-prod-environment-observability-cost-performance-in-one-view-40hc
Would love to know how you all handle non-prod optimization in your setups.