diff --git a/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev.yml b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85f3319
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+apiVersion: 1
+
+providers:
+  - name: Dev Observability
+    orgId: 1
+    folder: Dev Observability
+    type: file
+    disableDeletion: false
+    allowUiUpdates: true
+    options:
+      path: /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/dev
+      recursive: true
+
diff --git a/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/nats-overview.json b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/nats-overview.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9eb03a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/nats-overview.json
@@ -0,0 +1,388 @@
+{
+  "id": null,
+  "uid": "nats-dev",
+  "title": "NATS / JetStream (Dev)",
+  "tags": [
+    "nats",
+    "jetstream",
+    "dev"
+  ],
+  "schemaVersion": 38,
+  "version": 1,
+  "refresh": "10s",
+  "time": {
+    "from": "now-15m",
+    "to": "now"
+  },
+  "timepicker": {},
+  "annotations": {
+    "list": [
+      {
+        "builtIn": 1,
+        "datasource": "-- Grafana --",
+        "enable": true,
+        "hide": true,
+        "iconColor": "rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)",
+        "name": "Annotations & Alerts",
+        "type": "dashboard"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "templating": {
+    "list": []
+  },
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Active Connections",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 200
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "textMode": "auto"
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(nats_varz_total_connections)"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Slow Consumers",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 1
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 6,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "textMode": "auto"
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(nats_varz_slow_consumers)"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "JetStream Enabled",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "mappings": [
+            {
+              "type": 1,
+              "options": {
+                "0": {
+                  "text": "Disabled"
+                },
+                "1": {
+                  "text": "Enabled"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          ],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": 1
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "graphMode": "none",
+        "justifyMode": "center",
+        "orientation": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "textMode": "auto"
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "max(nats_varz_jetstream)"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Ingress vs Egress Messages",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 0
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(nats_varz_in_msgs[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "in"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(nats_varz_out_msgs[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "out"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Ingress vs Egress Bytes",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 0
+              }
+            ]
+          },
+          "unit": "Bps"
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 4
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(nats_varz_in_bytes[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "in"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(nats_varz_out_bytes[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "out"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "JetStream Storage Used",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "orange",
+                "value": 1e9
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 5e9
+              }
+            ]
+          },
+          "unit": "bytes"
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 24,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 12
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(nats_varz_jetstream_bytes)"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
diff --git a/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/otel-collector.json b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/otel-collector.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7b5c66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/otel-collector.json
@@ -0,0 +1,323 @@
+{
+  "id": null,
+  "uid": "otel-collector-dev",
+  "title": "OpenTelemetry Collector (Dev)",
+  "tags": [
+    "otel",
+    "dev"
+  ],
+  "timezone": "",
+  "schemaVersion": 38,
+  "version": 1,
+  "refresh": "10s",
+  "time": {
+    "from": "now-15m",
+    "to": "now"
+  },
+  "timepicker": {},
+  "annotations": {
+    "list": [
+      {
+        "builtIn": 1,
+        "datasource": "-- Grafana --",
+        "enable": true,
+        "hide": true,
+        "iconColor": "rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)",
+        "name": "Annotations & Alerts",
+        "type": "dashboard"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "templating": {
+    "list": []
+  },
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Accepted vs Refused Spans",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 0
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans{job=\"otel-collector\"}[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "accepted"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(otelcol_receiver_refused_spans{job=\"otel-collector\"}[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "refused"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Exporter Success vs Failures",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 0
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(otelcol_exporter_sent_spans{job=\"otel-collector\",exporter=\"otlp/jaeger\"}[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "sent"
+        },
+        {
+          "refId": "B",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(otelcol_exporter_failed_spans{job=\"otel-collector\",exporter=\"otlp/jaeger\"}[1m]))",
+          "legendFormat": "failed"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3,
+      "type": "timeseries",
+      "title": "Exporter Queue Size",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "color": {
+            "mode": "palette-classic"
+          },
+          "custom": {},
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 1000
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 8,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 8
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "legend": {
+          "displayMode": "list",
+          "placement": "bottom"
+        },
+        "tooltip": {
+          "mode": "single"
+        }
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "avg(otelcol_exporter_queue_size{job=\"otel-collector\",exporter=\"otlp/jaeger\"})",
+          "legendFormat": "queue size"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Process Memory (MB)",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "orange",
+                "value": 500
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 700
+              }
+            ]
+          },
+          "unit": "decbytes"
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 8
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "lastNotNull"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "textMode": "auto"
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "process_resident_memory_bytes{job=\"otel-collector\"} / 1e6"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5,
+      "type": "stat",
+      "title": "Process CPU (s)",
+      "datasource": {
+        "type": "prometheus",
+        "uid": "prometheus-dev"
+      },
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {
+          "mappings": [],
+          "thresholds": {
+            "mode": "absolute",
+            "steps": [
+              {
+                "color": "green",
+                "value": null
+              },
+              {
+                "color": "red",
+                "value": 60
+              }
+            ]
+          },
+          "unit": "s"
+        },
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 4,
+        "w": 6,
+        "x": 18,
+        "y": 8
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto",
+        "reduceOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "delta"
+          ],
+          "fields": "",
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "textMode": "auto"
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "rate(process_cpu_seconds_total{job=\"otel-collector\"}[5m])"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
diff --git a/configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml b/configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml
index 9bdc40d..89eaf18 100644
--- a/configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml
+++ b/configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: 1
 
 datasources:
   - name: Prometheus
+    uid: prometheus-dev
     type: prometheus
     access: proxy
     url: http://prometheus:9090
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ datasources:
     editable: true
 
   - name: Jaeger
+    uid: jaeger-dev
     type: jaeger
     access: proxy
     url: http://jaeger:16686
diff --git a/docker-compose.dev.yml b/docker-compose.dev.yml
index 5b148ad..00bf6d0 100644
--- a/docker-compose.dev.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.dev.yml
@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
       - ./configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yml:ro
+      - ./configs/grafana-dashboards.dev.yml:/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/dashboards.yml:ro
+      - ./configs/grafana-dashboards.dev:/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/dev:ro
     depends_on:
       - prometheus
       - jaeger
diff --git a/docs/dev-guide.md b/docs/dev-guide.md
index 57e89e0..e761414 100644
--- a/docs/dev-guide.md
+++ b/docs/dev-guide.md
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ Services:
   - Uses `configs/prometheus.dev.yml` to scrape the collector and NATS monitoring endpoint; UI available at <http://localhost:9090>
 - `grafana`
   - Persists data in `grafana-data`, provisions datasources via `configs/grafana-datasources.dev.yml`, and listens on <http://localhost:3000> (login `admin` / `admin`)
+  - Automatically loads dashboards from `configs/grafana-dashboards.dev/`, including OpenTelemetry Collector and NATS/JetStream overviews (find them under the **Dev Observability** folder)
 
 ### Customizing Collections & Dashboards