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+# Grafana Dashboards
+Ingress-nginx supports a rich collection of prometheus metrics.  If you have prometheus and grafana installed on your cluster then prometheus will already be scraping this data due to the `scrape` annotation on the deployment.
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+This folder contains a dashboard that you can import:
+
+![Dashboard](screenshot.png)
+
+## Features
+
+  - Ability to filter by Namespace, Controller Class and Controller
+  - Visbility of Request Volume, connections, success rates, config reloads and configs out of sync.
+  - Network IO pressure, memory and CPU use
+  - Ingress P50, P95 and P99 percentile response times with IN/OUT throughput
+  - SSL certificate expiry 
+  - Annotational overlays to show when config reloads happened
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