Onboarding issues I noticed (#105211)

* Fix inconsistency in command instructions between the Backend and Frontend section.

* Increase ulimit advice.

On a bare system I'm getting almost 6200 files from the given `find` command.
It's clear that this project has grown considerably since this line was added
to the onboarding docs.

* starting grafana is not explained in the devenv readme.

contribute/developer-guide.md

@@ -134,7 +134,13 @@ Next, we'll explain how to build and run the web server that serves these fronte
 
 ### Backend
 
-Build and run the backend by running `make run` in the root directory of the repository. This command compiles the Go source code and starts a web server.
+Build and run the backend by running
+
+```
+make run
+```
+
+in the root directory of the repository. This command compiles the Go source code and starts a web server.
 
 > **Troubleshooting:** Are you having problems with [too many open files](#troubleshooting)?
 
@@ -312,7 +318,7 @@ ulimit -a
 To change the number of open files allowed, run:
 
 ```
-ulimit -S -n 4096
+ulimit -S -n 8000
 ```
 
 The number of files needed may be different on your environment. To determine the number of open files needed by `make run`, run:

devenv/README.md

@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ To remove the setup developer dashboards and data sources
 ./setup.sh undev
 ```
 
-After restarting the Grafana server, there should be a number of data sources named `gdev-<type>` provisioned as well as
-a dashboard folder named `gdev dashboards`. This folder contains dashboard and panel features tests dashboards.
+After restarting the Grafana server (`make run`), there should be a number of data sources named `gdev-<type>`
+provisioned as well as a dashboard folder named `gdev dashboards`. This folder contains dashboard and panel features
+tests dashboards.
 
 Please update these dashboards or make new ones as new panels and dashboards features are developed or new bugs are
 found. The dashboards are located in the `devenv/dev-dashboards` folder.