diff --git a/.prometheus.dev.yml b/.prometheus.dev.yml
index a336de66f..b0f800c70 100644
--- a/.prometheus.dev.yml
+++ b/.prometheus.dev.yml
@@ -4,37 +4,28 @@ global:
   scrape_interval:     10s
 
 scrape_configs:
-  - job_name: 'prometheus'
+  - job_name: 'conduit-controller'
     static_configs:
-      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
+    - targets:
+      - 'destination:9999'
+      - 'prometheus:9090'
+      - 'proxy-api:9996'
+      - 'public-api:9995'
+      - 'tap:9998'
+      - 'telemetry:9997'
+      - 'web:9994'
+    relabel_configs:
+    - action: labelmap
+      regex: __address__
+      replacement: component
+    - action: replace
+      source_labels: [component]
+      regex: ^(.*):.*$
+      target_label: component
 
-  - job_name: 'web'
+  - job_name: 'conduit-proxy'
     static_configs:
-      - targets: ['web:9994']
-
-  - job_name: 'public-api'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['public-api:9995']
-
-  - job_name: 'proxy-api'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['proxy-api:9996']
-
-  - job_name: 'telemetry'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['telemetry:9997']
-
-  - job_name: 'tap'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['tap:9998']
-
-  - job_name: 'destination'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['destination:9999']
-
-  - job_name: 'conduit'
-    static_configs:
-      - targets:
-        - 'simulate-proxy:9000'
-        - 'simulate-proxy:9001'
-        - 'simulate-proxy:9002'
+    - targets:
+      - 'simulate-proxy:9000'
+      - 'simulate-proxy:9001'
+      - 'simulate-proxy:9002'
diff --git a/controller/script/simulate-proxy/main.go b/controller/script/simulate-proxy/main.go
index 1e15902fb..e820f8bed 100644
--- a/controller/script/simulate-proxy/main.go
+++ b/controller/script/simulate-proxy/main.go
@@ -41,7 +41,33 @@ type proxyMetricCollectors struct {
 }
 
 var (
-	labels            = generatePromLabels()
+	// for reference: https://github.com/runconduit/conduit/blob/master/doc/proxy-metrics.md#labels
+	labels = []string{
+		// kubeResourceTypes
+		"k8s_daemon_set",
+		"k8s_deployment",
+		"k8s_job",
+		"k8s_replication_controller",
+		"k8s_replica_set",
+
+		"k8s_pod_template_hash",
+		"namespace",
+
+		// constantLabels
+		"direction",
+		"authority",
+		"status_code",
+		"grpc_status_code",
+
+		// destinationLabels
+		"dst_daemon_set",
+		"dst_deployment",
+		"dst_job",
+		"dst_replication_controller",
+		"dst_replica_set",
+		"dst_namespace",
+	}
+
 	grpcResponseCodes = []codes.Code{
 		codes.OK,
 		codes.PermissionDenied,
@@ -170,10 +196,10 @@ func (s *simulatedProxy) generateProxyTraffic() {
 // newConduitLabel creates a label map to be used for metric generation.
 func (s *simulatedProxy) newConduitLabel(destinationPod string, isResponseLabel bool) prom.Labels {
 	labelMap := prom.Labels{
-		"direction":  randomRequestDirection(),
-		"deployment": s.deploymentName,
-		"authority":  "world.greeting:7778",
-		"namespace":  s.namespace,
+		"direction":      randomRequestDirection(),
+		"k8s_deployment": s.deploymentName,
+		"authority":      "world.greeting:7778",
+		"namespace":      s.namespace,
 	}
 	if labelMap["direction"] == "outbound" {
 		labelMap["dst_deployment"] = destinationPod
@@ -209,30 +235,6 @@ func randomRequestDirection() string {
 	return "outbound"
 }
 
-func generatePromLabels() []string {
-	kubeResourceTypes := []string{
-		"job",
-		"replica_set",
-		"deployment",
-		"daemon_set",
-		"replication_controller",
-		"namespace",
-	}
-	constantLabels := []string{
-		"direction",
-		"authority",
-		"status_code",
-		"grpc_status_code",
-	}
-
-	destinationLabels := make([]string, len(kubeResourceTypes))
-
-	for i, label := range kubeResourceTypes {
-		destinationLabels[i] = fmt.Sprintf("dst_%s", label)
-	}
-	return append(append(constantLabels, kubeResourceTypes...), destinationLabels...)
-}
-
 // overrideDefaultLabels combines two maps of the same size with the keys
 // map1 values take precedence during the union
 func overrideDefaultLabels(map1 map[string]string) map[string]string {
@@ -412,18 +414,14 @@ func main() {
 		randomPodOwner := getRandomDeployment(deployments, excludedDeployments)
 		excludedDeployments[randomPodOwner] = struct{}{}
 
-		go func(address string, podOwner string, deployments []string) {
-
-			proxy := newSimulatedProxy(podOwner, deployments, sleep)
-			server := &http.Server{
-				Addr:    address,
-				Handler: promhttp.HandlerFor(proxy.registerer, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}),
-			}
-			log.Infof("serving scrapable metrics on %s", address)
-			go server.ListenAndServe()
-			go proxy.generateProxyTraffic()
-
-		}(addr, randomPodOwner, deployments)
+		proxy := newSimulatedProxy(randomPodOwner, deployments, sleep)
+		server := &http.Server{
+			Addr:    addr,
+			Handler: promhttp.HandlerFor(proxy.registerer, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}),
+		}
+		log.Infof("serving scrapable metrics on %s", addr)
+		go server.ListenAndServe()
+		go proxy.generateProxyTraffic()
 	}
 	<-stopCh
 }
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 1c0428750..7fb968187 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@ services:
     - --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
     - --storage.tsdb.retention=6h
 
+  grafana:
+    image: grafana/grafana:5.0.3
+    ports:
+    - 3000:3000
+    volumes:
+    # TODO: find a way to share the dashboard json files, currently in cli/install/*.go
+    - ./grafana/dev.grafana.ini:/etc/grafana/grafana.ini:ro
+    - ./grafana/dev.datasources.yaml:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yaml:ro
+
   simulate-proxy:
     image: golang:1.10.0-alpine3.7
     ports:
diff --git a/grafana/dev.datasources.yaml b/grafana/dev.datasources.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05f75b450
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana/dev.datasources.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: 1
+datasources:
+- name: prometheus
+  type: prometheus
+  access: proxy
+  orgId: 1
+  url: http://prometheus:9090
+  isDefault: true
+  jsonData:
+    timeInterval: "5s"
+  version: 1
+  editable: true
diff --git a/grafana/dev.grafana.ini b/grafana/dev.grafana.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e4f61dec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grafana/dev.grafana.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+instance_name = conduit-grafana
+
+[auth]
+disable_login_form = true
+
+[auth.anonymous]
+enabled = true
+org_role = Editor
+
+[auth.basic]
+enabled = false
+
+[analytics]
+check_for_updates = false