A cluster of symptoms points to the lack of an integrated query dashboard: intermittent p95/p99 spikes, "noisy neighbor" queries that dominate CPU intermittently, alerts that fire without an obvious root cause, and runbooks that instruct engineers to "restart the host" or "scale up" because there is no quick way to see the plan, the fingerprint, and the contention profile together. That wasted time is what a focused dashboard is built to eliminate. Contents [What a Query Performance Insights Dashboard Must Reveal] [Surface Latency, Throughput, and Resource Contention Metrics] [How to Capture and Surface EXPLAIN Plans and Query Fingerprints] [Drilldown Workflows That Lead to Root Cause and Remediation] [Practical Runbook: Build Checklist and Step-by-Step Protocols] What a Query Performance Insights Dashboard Must Reveal A query performance dashboard is not a general-purpose server monitor; it is the single pane that answers three operational questions fast: Which queries are contributing most to observed…