Dish Network has significantly enhanced its satellite communications monitoring by implementing Grafana dashboards and Grafana Loki to improve uptime and system efficiency. Systems Administrator Engineer Ted Raymond explained during GrafanaCONline 2022 how these tools have transformed their operations, allowing real-time monitoring of equipment, antennas, and weather conditions, which is crucial for maintaining service for their 20 million U.S. customers. The team has moved from inefficient manual data collection to automated real-time data access, enabling swift problem resolution and collaboration across teams. By using Grafana Alerting, they can address issues like antenna performance before they affect uptime, and with Grafana Loki, they efficiently read log files for better server health monitoring. This modernization has not only closed the 1% uptime gap but also democratized data access, allowing users without programming expertise to build and interpret custom dashboards. The new system has enabled Dish Network to efficiently manage specific missions, such as de-orbiting spacecraft, by integrating various data sources into a single, comprehensive dashboard, ultimately fostering team unity and operational success.