Grafana user interface

This reference covers the Grafana web application's main UI components, including panels, visualizations, and dashboards. For consistency, this document links to the corresponding topics in the Grafana documentation.

Panels

A Grafana panel is a basic building block in Grafana. Each panel displays a dataset from a data source query using a visualization For more information about panels, refer to the following items:

• Working with Grafana panels
• Query a data source
• Override field values
• Transform data
• Format data using value mapping
• Create reusable Grafana panels
• Enable template variables to add panels dynamically
• Reference: Query options
• Reference: Calculation types
• Reference: Standard field definitions

Visualizations

Grafana panels support various visualizations, which are visual representations of underlying data. These representations are often graphical and include:

• Graphs and charts
  • Time series
  • State timeline
  • Status history
  • Bar chart
  • Histogram
  • Heatmap
  • Pie chart
  • Candlestick
• Stats and numbers
  • Stat
  • Gauge
  • Bar gauge
• Others
  • Table
  • Logs
  • Node graph
  • Text
  • News
  • Alert list
  • Dashboard list

Dashboards

A Grafana dashboard is a collection of panels arranged in rows and columns. Panels typically show datasets that are related. You can create multiple dashboards in Grafana. For more information about dashboards, refer to the following links:

• Working with Grafana dashboard UI
• Dashboard folders
• Create dashboard
• Manage dashboards
• Annotations
• Playlist
• Search
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Reporting
• Time range controls
• Dashboard version history
• Dashboard export and import
• Dashboard JSON model
• Scripted dashboards

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