mixin: add a dashboard per tab next to the full dashboard (#2678)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan-Otto Kröpke <mail@jkroepke.de>
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## Sample dashboard for Windows Exporter
## Sample dashboards for Windows Exporter
[windows-exporter-dashboard.json](windows-exporter-dashboard.json) is a Grafana dashboard for hosts monitored by windows_exporter.
[windows-exporter-dashboard.json](windows-exporter-dashboard.json) is a Grafana dashboard for hosts monitored by windows_exporter, with all tabs described below.
Each tab is also a shorter dashboard of its own, such as [windows-exporter-cpu.json](windows-exporter-cpu.json) or [windows-exporter-fleet.json](windows-exporter-fleet.json).
It was originally inspired by [this dashboard in Chinese](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/10467-windows-exporter-for-prometheus-dashboard-cn-v20230531/)
and takes several ideas from Grafana's [windows-observ-lib](https://github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs/tree/master/windows-observ-lib).
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The process names in the GPU tab need the `process` collector.
GPU temperature, fan, power and clock panels require WDDM 2.4 or newer and driver support; unsupported sensors are absent.
Import the JSON file through **Dashboards > New > Import** and pick the Prometheus data source in the **Data source** variable.
Import the JSON files through **Dashboards > New > Import** and pick the Prometheus data source in the **Data source** variable.
| Dashboard | File | UID |
|-----------|------|-----|
| Windows Exporter / Full | [windows-exporter-dashboard.json](windows-exporter-dashboard.json) | `windows-exporter-full` |
| Windows Exporter / `<tab>` | `windows-exporter-<tab>.json`, for example [windows-exporter-cpu.json](windows-exporter-cpu.json) | `windows-exporter-<tab>`, for example `windows-exporter-cpu` |
The tab dashboards show only the variables their panels use.
The **Windows Exporter** dropdown in the links of the tab dashboards opens the other imported dashboards and keeps the time range and variables.
Before these UIDs, the full dashboard used the UID `Kdaassddw`; importing the new file creates a second dashboard, so delete the old one afterwards.
### Variables
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| Data source | The Prometheus data source to query. |
| Job | One or more scrape jobs. |
| Hostname | Narrows the fleet overview and the instance list to the selected hostnames. |
| Instance | The host shown in all tabs except Fleet. |
| Instance | The host shown in all tabs and dashboards except Fleet. |
| Volume | Volumes shown in the Overview and Disk tabs. `HarddiskVolume*` are hidden. |
| Network interface | Interfaces shown in the Overview and Network tabs. |
| Process | One or more process names shown in the Processes tab, or All. |
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| Time | Time zone, clock sync source, NTP time sources, clock offset and NTP round-trip delay. |
| Exporter | Scrape status and duration, exporter version and uptime, collector status, duration, failures and timeouts, and the exporter's CPU, memory, handles and Go runtime. |
Click a hostname in the Fleet tab to open that host in the Overview tab.
Click a hostname in the Fleet tab to open that host in the Overview tab. In the Fleet dashboard, it opens the Overview dashboard.
Each per-host tab starts with a row of current values, each with a sparkline
of the time range behind it. Green, orange and red show health against fixed
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### Changing the dashboard
Don't edit the JSON file by hand. It is generated from Jsonnet with [grafonnet](https://github.com/grafana/grafonnet) as part of the [windows_exporter mixin](../contrib/mixin):
Don't edit the JSON files by hand. They are generated from Jsonnet with [grafonnet](https://github.com/grafana/grafonnet) as part of the [windows_exporter mixin](../contrib/mixin):
- [dashboards/windows-exporter.libsonnet](../contrib/mixin/dashboards/windows-exporter.libsonnet) composes the dashboard from one file per tab.
- [dashboards/windows-exporter.libsonnet](../contrib/mixin/dashboards/windows-exporter.libsonnet) composes the dashboards from one file per tab.
- [dashboards/builders.libsonnet](../contrib/mixin/dashboards/builders.libsonnet) holds the panel, query, and layout builders.
- [dashboards/styles.libsonnet](../contrib/mixin/dashboards/styles.libsonnet) shares the visualization defaults.
The generator writes the v2 schema directly, so it needs neither Grafana nor Prometheus.
Install [mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/) and Go, then install the pinned tools and
regenerate the file in `contrib/mixin` (use WSL on Windows):
regenerate the files in `contrib/mixin` (use WSL on Windows):
```sh
cd contrib/mixin
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mise run dashboard
```
`mise run dashboard` runs `jb install` to fetch grafonnet into `contrib/mixin/vendor` and renders the dashboard.
`mise run lint` fails if the committed JSON file differs from the generated one.
`mise run check-dashboards` rebuilds it and runs `git diff --exit-code`, as CI does before the mixin tests.
Check new or changed queries in Grafana before you open a pull request, for example by importing the file into a local Grafana 13.
`mise run dashboard` runs `jb install` to fetch grafonnet into `contrib/mixin/vendor` and renders the dashboards.
`mise run lint` fails if the committed JSON files differ from the generated ones.
`mise run check-dashboards` rebuilds them and runs `git diff --exit-code`, as CI does before the mixin tests.
Check new or changed queries in Grafana before you open a pull request, for example by importing the files into a local Grafana 13.
![Screenshot of the Fleet tab.](dashboard-fleet.png)