Creating dashboards

This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x.

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

Creating a dashboard

Dashboards and panels allow you to show your data in visual form using Grafana. Each panel needs at least one query to display a visualization. Before you get started, complete the following prerequisites.

• Ensure that you have the proper permissions. For more information about permissions, see Users, teams, and permissions.

• Identify the dashboard to which you want to add the panel.

• Understand the query language of the target data source.

• Ensure that data source for which you are writing a query has been added.

To create a dashboard:

1. Sign into Grafana, hover your cursor over Dashboard, and click + New Dashboard.

2. Click Add a new panel.

3. In the first line of the Query tab, click the dropdown list and select a data source.

4. Write or construct a query in the query language of your data source.

5. In the Visualization list, select a visualization type. Grafana displays a preview of your query results with the visualization applied. For more information, see Visualizations options.

6. Adjust panel settings in the following ways.

   • Configure value mappings

   • Visualization-specific options

   • Override field values

   • Configure thresholds

   • Configure standard options

     Note

     Most visualizations need some adjustment before they properly display the information you need.

7. Add a note to describe the visualization (or describe your changes) and then click Save in the upper-right corner of the page.

   Note

   Notes are helpful if you need to revert the dashboard to a previous version.

Configuring repeating rows

You can configure Grafana to dynamically add panels or rows to a dashboard based on the value of a variable. Variables dynamically change your queries across all rows in a dashboard. For more information about repeating panels, see Configure repeating panels.

You can also repeat rows if you have variables set with Multi-value or Include all values selected.

Before you get started, ensure that the query includes a multi-value variable, then you should complete the following steps.

1. On the dashboard home page, click Add panel.

2. On the Add a panel dialog box, click Add a new row.

3. Hover over the row title and click the cog icon.

4. On the Row Options dialog box, add a title and select the variable for which you want to add repeating rows.

   Note

   To provide context to dashboard users, add the variable to the row title.

To move a panel

1. Open the dashboard.

1. Click the panel title and drag the panel to the new location. You can place a panel on a dashboard in any location.

To resize a panel

1. Open the dashboard.

2. To adjust the size of the panel, click and drag the lower-right corner of the panel. You can size a dashboard panel to suits your needs.