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aliases:
- features/dashboard/dashboards/
labels:
products:
- cloud
- enterprise
- oss
title: Dashboards
weight: 70
description: Create and manage dashboards
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title: Dashboards
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Dashboards allow you to query, transform, visualize, and understand your data no matter where it's stored.
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items:
- title: Build dashboards
href: ./build-dashboards/
description: Get step-by-step directions for how to create or import your first dashboard and modify dashboard settings. Learn about reusable library panels, dashboard links, annotations, and dashboard JSON.
height: 24
- title: Manage dashboards
href: ./manage-dashboards/
description: Learn about dashboard and folder management, as well as generative AI features for dashboards.
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- title: Variables
href: ./variables/
description: Add variables to metric queries and panel titles to create interactive and dynamic dashboards.
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- title: Reporting
href: ./create-reports/
description: Automatically generate and share PDF reports from your Grafana dashboards.
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- title: Sharing
href: ./share-dashboards-panels/
description: Share Grafana dashboards and panels using links, snapshots, embeds, and exports.
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- title: Shared dashboards
href: ./share-dashboards-panels/shared-dashboards/
description: Share your dashboards with anyone without requiring access to your Grafana organization.
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panels:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/panel-overview/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/panels-visualizations/panel-overview/
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## Overview
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A Grafana dashboard is a set of one or more [panels](ref:panels), organized and arranged into one or more rows, that provide an at-a-glance view of related information. These panels are created using components that query and transform raw data from a data source into charts, graphs, and other visualizations.
A data source can be an SQL database, Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, or a JSON-based API. It can even be a basic CSV file. Data source plugins take a query you want answered, retrieve the data from the data source, and reconcile the differences between the data model of the data source and the data model of Grafana dashboards.
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Queries allow you to reduce the entirety of your data to a specific dataset, providing a more manageable visualization. Since data sources have their own distinct query languages, Grafana dashboards provide you with a query editor to accommodate these differences.
A panel is the container that displays the visualization and provides you with various controls to manipulate it. Panel options let you customize many aspects of a visualization and the options differ based on which visualization you select. When the data format in a visualization doesn't meet your requirements, you can apply a transformation that manipulates the data returned by a query.
With 150+ data source plugins, you can unify all your data sources into a single dashboard to streamline data monitoring and troubleshooting. With Grafana, you can translate, transform, and visualize data in flexible and versatile dashboards.
## Explore
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