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+# Grafana Dashboards
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+This directory contains prebuilt dashboards (provided as JSON files) for various components.
+For steps on how to import and use them [please read the official Grafana documentation.](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/export-import/#import-dashboard)
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+More metrics and instrumentation is being added, if you'd like to follow along or contribute, [please see this tracking issue](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/issues/1356).
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