Managing dashboards

This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x.

For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see Working in Grafana version 9.

For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see Working in Grafana version 8.

On the Dashboards page of your workspace (available by selecting Dashboards from the left menu), you can perform dashboard management tasks, including organizing your dashboards into folders.

For more information about creating dashboards, see Building dashboards.

Browse dashboards

On the Dashboards page, you can browse and manage folders and dashboards. This includes options to:

• Create folders and dashboards.

• Move dashboards between folders.

• Delete multiple dashboards and folders.

• Navigate to a folder.

• Manage folder permissions. For more information, see Dashboard and folder permissions.

Creating dashboard folders

Folders help you organize and group dashboards, which is useful when you have many dashboards or multiple teams using the same Grafana instance. Subfolders allow you to create a nested hierarchy in your dashboard organization.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have Grafana Admin permissions. For more information about dashboard permissions, see Dashboard and folder permissions.

To create a dashboard folder

1. Sign in to Grafana.

2. On the left menu, select Dashboards.

3. On the Dashboards page, select New then choose New folder in the drop down.

4. Enter a unique name and click Create.

Note

When you save a dashboard, you can either select a folder for the dashboard to be saved in or create a new folder.

To edit the name of a folder

1. Select Dashboardsin the left menu.

2. Select the folder to rename

3. Select the Edit title (pencil) icon in the header and update the name of the folder.

   The new folder name is automatically saved.

Folder permissions

You can assign permissions to a folder. Dashboard in the folder inherit any permissions that you've assigned to the folder. You can assign permissions to organization roles, teams, and users.

To modify permissions for a folder

1. Select Dashboards from the left menu.

2. Select the folder in the list.

3. On the folder's details page, select Folder actions and select Manage permissions in the drop down list.

4. Update the permissions as desired.

Changes are saved automatically.