ottyl/tickets/025-default-dashboard-seed.md

025 — Seed a default dashboard with 2 default panels

Summary

ProfileStore::ensure_default creates the Default profile with no dashboards. The wishlist wants every fresh Default profile to come with a starter dashboard: a line chart of "error" vs. non-"error" log volume, and a pie chart of the same ratio.

Scope

• On ensure_default creating a brand-new Default profile (not on every startup — only when the profile itself is newly created), seed one Dashboard with two panels:
  • Line chart: log message count over time, split into "contains error" vs. "does not contain error" series.
  • Pie chart: same split, as a ratio/total-count breakdown.
• Express both panels as PromQL-style queries against a counter (022) — this likely requires an implicit built-in "log matched regex X" counter concept (e.g. auto-declaring a metric for regex("error") vs. its complement), or a raw-text regex count primitive in the PromQL surface if one doesn't already exist. Decide and document which.
• Seeded dashboard/panels must persist through the normal profile save path (same as any user-created dashboard) so it's editable/deletable like any other.

Acceptance criteria

• A fresh install (no existing settings/profile store) starts up with a Default profile that already has one dashboard containing the line and pie panels described above, without any user action.
• Restarting with an already-existing Default profile does not re-seed or duplicate the dashboard.
• The seeded panels render real data against a log stream containing a mix of "error" and non-"error" lines.

Depends on

• 022 — Metrics rethink (defines what a "count of matching logs" counter/query looks like).