---
keywords:
  - grafana
  - dashboard
  - dashboard folders
  - create
  - build
  - design
labels:
  products:
    - cloud
    - enterprise
    - oss
menuTitle: Build dashboards
title: Build dashboards
description: Build dashboards including managing settings, links, and version history
weight: 2
---

# Build dashboards

This section includes the following topics:

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## Dynamic dashboards

You can create more interactive and dynamic dashboards by adding and using [variables][]. Instead of hard-coding things like server, application, and sensor names in your metric queries, you can use variables in their place. Read more about variables [here][variables].

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[variables]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/dashboards/variables"
[variables]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/dashboards/variables"
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