72×72 pixel micro-dashboards. Always visible. Never buried.
Wall displays are great for high-level status. But during the "fog of war" of an active incident, they fail. Your peripheral vision is tuned for motion and patterns, not dense charts.
That's why car dashboards, cockpits, and game HUDs all put tiny signals just below the line of sight. We thought: why not Grafana?
This plugin brings real observability to a device that sits right on your desk—always visible, never buried under a Zoom call or code editor.
Speaker: Gerard de Jong
Event: GrafanaCon 2026
Gerard de Jong used to believe the same lie everyone else does: More screen = more observability. But then he hacked a Stream Deck to show 72×72 pixel Grafana dashboard panels, always visible in his peripheral vision, and it completely changed how he handles incidents. Suddenly:
This talk demonstrates practical patterns for real on-call life and shows why micro-dashboards let you often see anomalies before alerts fire—while everyone else is still opening Grafana.
Learn why tiny displays outperform large dashboards during incidents and how to design for glance-first awareness.
Discover how to safely integrate Grafana with your Stream Deck using encrypted API tokens and read-only service accounts.
Real on-call professionals don't wait for PagerDuty to fire. Learn how to see problems before they become incidents.
Practical, battle-tested layouts for Stream Deck + Grafana that work for real teams running production systems.
The plugin will be available on the Elgato Stream Deck Marketplace soon.
In the meantime, visit our GitHub repository for installation and development details.
Stream Deck Pluginhttps://grafana.example.com/api)The core library powering this plugin is open source. Want to build a similar integration for another platform? Absolutely! We've made it easy.
We believe the best tools come from the community. By sharing the core library, developers can build micro-dashboard integrations for:
We've verified this plugin works beautifully with popular Grafana dashboards:
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View DashboardNo telemetry. No tracking. No analytics. Your API keys stay encrypted on your machine. We literally can't see your data.
AES-256 encryption for all tokens. Read-only API access enforced. Best practices baked into every layer.
Built by people who actually work on-call. We understand the pain of incidents and the value of real-time awareness.
Open source core. Extensible design. We want others to build on this. Let's make observability better together.