Anyone interested or could point me in the right direction to get started? Thanks all!
The most common tool used for this is graphite[4]. Yelp also wrote their own which is nice called Firefly[5]. If you go with graphite like most big companies do, I would strongly suggest looking at graphene[6], gdash[7], giraffe[8], tasseo[9], or cubism[10] dashboard frontends. Graphite has a lot of "devops" community around it.
This should be enough to get you started :)
[1] http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-meas... [2] http://www.slideshare.net/mikebrittain/metricsdriven-enginee... [3] http://pivotallabs.com/139-metrics-metrics-everywhere/ [4] http://graphite.wikidot.com/ [5] https://github.com/Yelp/Firefly [6] http://jondot.github.com/graphene/ [7] http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/10/08/gdash-graphite-dash... [8] https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe [9] https://github.com/obfuscurity/tasseo [10] http://square.github.com/cubism/
However, despite my support for open-source tools, and my deep love for graphite, it might in some cases make more sense to use a commercial product. There are many pretty neat commercial dashboards out there which could make the setup and any learning-curve much easier.
Just to name a few I've heard of (never used, and in no particular order): Librato metrics, ducksboard, geckoboard ... and probably many others I missed.
I have built a fair number of analytic dashboards for a variety of clients. Google Analytics is pretty easy to export data from and integrate to overall. Social is a little more of a pain depending on the source and what you are trying to measure.
Overall I find the hardest part is selecting the metrics to communicate to the client/user so you are providing the most value without noise. Creating the dashboard(s) is usually the easy part, definition and analysis are where you show the clients/users why you are special.
My email is in my profile if you are? I can share some links - I can't post it here because I don't know if the server can take the traffic.