Grafana dashboard: Akka Actor System - Kamon
Description: Akka actors with Kamon-core

Akka Actors basic overview based just on Kamon-core. 1.x.x module for metric collection. Exposed via Kamon Prometheus reporter and scraped by Prometheus 5.x 

If you find something missing or would like to improve something  https://github.com/jaksky/kamon-grafana-dashboards

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