ottyl/tickets/027-dashboards-autosave.md

027 — Dashboards: remove manual save, autosave everything

Summary

Dashboards.tsx currently has an explicit "Save dashboard" button (saveDashboard called on click). The wishlist wants dashboards to always autosave — no explicit save step, matching how settings/profile changes already persist immediately elsewhere in the app.

Scope

• Remove the "Save dashboard" button and the saving/dirty-draft gating around it in Dashboards.tsx.
• Persist panel/name edits automatically: debounce edits (e.g. text field keystrokes) so autosave doesn't fire on every keystroke, but don't require any user action to commit a change.
• Cover all mutations that currently route through the save button: panel add/remove/edit (title, PromQL, chart type), dashboard rename.
• Surface save failures unobtrusively (e.g. a small inline status/error near the dashboard, not a blocking dialog) since there's no longer a discrete "Save" click to attach an error to.

Acceptance criteria

• Editing a panel's title, query, or chart type persists without clicking anything, verified by reloading the page and seeing the change retained.
• Rapid typing in a text field doesn't spam the save endpoint on every keystroke.
• A failed autosave (e.g. simulated API error) surfaces to the user without losing the in-progress edit.

Depends on

None — modifies the existing Dashboards.tsx save path.