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🔄Dashboard Watch Mode

Live development monitoring with auto-refreshing dashboards for real-time AI consensus pipeline visibility

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Live Development Monitoring

Transform your AI development workflow with continuous real-time dashboard monitoring. Unlike static snapshots, watch mode provides live visibility into consensus pipeline performance, model behavior, and cost tracking as you develop.

🔄 Auto-Refresh

10-30s intervals based on dashboard type

📊 Live Data

Real-time activity and performance metrics

🎯 Developer-Focused

Optimized for coding workflows

📱 Developer Terminal Setup

# Optimal development terminal layout
Terminal 1: code . # Your IDE
Terminal 2: npm run dev # Dev server
Terminal 3: hive dashboard watch live # Live monitoring ⭐
Terminal 4: git status # Version control

💻 Watch Mode Commands

Basic Watch Mode

# Start live monitoring (default: 10s refresh)
hive dashboard watch

# Monitor specific dashboard types
hive dashboard watch live # Real-time monitoring (10s)
hive dashboard watch exec # Business metrics (30s)
hive dashboard watch ops # System health (20s)
hive dashboard watch kpis # Performance indicators (15s)

Exit Watch Mode

# Graceful exit
Ctrl+C # Exit watch mode and return to terminal

🚀 Real Developer Workflow

🔄 Live Development Flow

# Terminal 1: Generate component
$ hive consensus "Create responsive ProductCard component"

# Terminal 3: Shows LIVE progress
🟡 2:15:25 PM - Query started
⚡ 2:15:27 PM - Generator started (claude-3.5-sonnet)
⚡ 2:15:35 PM - Generator completed - 8.2s
⚡ 2:15:36 PM - Refiner started (gpt-4o)
⚡ 2:15:42 PM - Refiner completed - 6.8s
✅ 2:15:45 PM - Consensus completed - $0.0847

Watch your consensus pipeline execute in real-time with full visibility into each stage

📊 Performance Optimization

# Live model performance leaderboard
🏆 Model Performance (Last Hour)
claude-3-s ████████████████████ 96% (12 uses)
gpt-4o ███████████████ 91% (8 uses)
gemini-pro ██████████ 87% (4 uses)

# Real-time cost tracking
│ Cost/Query │ $0.0847 │ $0.0652 │ 📉 │
│ Total Cost │ $3.42 │ N/A │ 💰 │

Optimize model selection and monitor costs in real-time based on live performance data

🔍 Debug & Troubleshoot

# Error detection and failover tracking
❌ 2:16:15 PM - Query failed: Rate limit exceeded (openai/gpt-4)
⚡ 2:16:16 PM - Model failover: gpt-4 → claude-3.5-sonnet
✅ 2:16:45 PM - Consensus completed - $0.0456

# Action: Switch to more reliable model
$ hive templates apply balanced-professional

See errors as they happen and track automatic failover behavior with full context

📈 Dashboard Types

🔴 Live Monitoring

Refresh: Every 10 seconds
Focus: Real-time system activity
  • Active queries and response times
  • Recent activity stream
  • Model performance leaderboard
  • System status indicators
# Best for active development
hive dashboard watch live

👔 Executive Dashboard

Refresh: Every 30 seconds
Focus: Business metrics and KPIs
  • Success rates and quality scores
  • Cost efficiency metrics
  • Performance indicators
  • Overall system health
# Best for session overview
hive dashboard watch exec

⚙️ Operational Dashboard

Refresh: Every 20 seconds
Focus: System health and performance
  • Uptime and error rates
  • Resource utilization
  • API quota monitoring
  • Performance trends
# Best for system monitoring
hive dashboard watch ops

🎯 KPI Dashboard

Refresh: Every 15 seconds
Focus: Key performance indicators
  • Financial performance metrics
  • Operational efficiency scores
  • Quality and satisfaction metrics
  • Strategic indicators
# Best for performance tracking
hive dashboard watch kpis

🎯 Key Benefits for Developers

⚡ Immediate Feedback Loop

❌ Before:

Submit query → Wait → Hope it works → Check manually

✅ After:

Submit query → Watch live progress → See results → Optimize immediately

💰 Cost Management

  • Watch costs accumulate during development
  • Get immediate feedback on expensive patterns
  • Optimize model selection based on cost vs. quality
  • Stay within budget with real-time tracking

🔍 Performance Optimization

  • Identify slow-performing models in real-time
  • Switch to faster combinations mid-development
  • Track response time improvements
  • Monitor success rates by model

👥 Team Collaboration

  • Share live monitoring during pair programming
  • Demonstrate AI performance during demos
  • Provide data-driven insights during stand-ups
  • Document optimization discoveries

✅ Best Practices

Development Workflow

  • Always start watch mode before coding sessions
  • Use live dashboard for active development
  • Switch to executive view for session summaries
  • Monitor KPIs when optimizing configurations

Performance Optimization

  • Track response times to identify bottlenecks
  • Monitor success rates for model reliability
  • Use cost data to optimize budget utilization
  • Debug failed queries with activity stream

💡 Pro Tip

Dashboard Watch Mode transforms Hive AI from a simple query tool into a comprehensive development monitoring platform. It's like having a performance profiler for your AI coding assistant!

🔄 Start Live Monitoring Today

Experience unprecedented visibility into your AI development workflow with real-time dashboard monitoring. Watch your consensus pipeline execute, optimize performance on the fly, and develop with confidence.

# Start your first watch mode session
hive dashboard watch live
# Press Ctrl+C to exit when done
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