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title: "Manage pre-defined dashboards | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "One key advantage of the knowledge graph is that you don't have to constantly update your dashboards whenever changes occur in your underlying infrastructure. By leveraging the knowledge graph's pre-defined dashboards, you can effectively monitor and troubleshoot your environment without the hassle of manual maintenance."
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# Manage pre-defined dashboards

The knowledge graph provides a collection of pre-defined dashboards for various entity types such as Services, Pods, Nodes, and more. The knowledge graph also includes a range of community dashboards tailored for different frameworks like JVM, Go, Kafka, and others.

This topic describes how pre-defined dashboards work and shows you how to link a custom dashboard to an entity.

## Understand pre-defined dashboards

The knowledge graph automatically builds dashboards based on entities it detects in your environment. Because pre-defined dashboards are a byproduct of the discovery process, when entities in your IT environment change, the queries that generate your dashboard also change. As a result, you don’t need to manually update pre-defined dashboards when your underlying infrastructure changes.

Each entity type includes the same pre-defined dashboards. For example, all instances of a Pod include the following dashboards:

- Logs
- Traces
- Pod KPI
- Kubernetes Pod
- Properties

If required, you can [link a custom dashboard](#link-a-custom-dashboard-to-an-entity-or-entity-type) to an entity type or an entity. Be aware that custom dashboards don’t automatically update when your infrastructure changes.

You can find the list of pre-defined dashboards in the KPI display options. The following image shows the knowledge graph pre-defined dashboards available in Grafana Cloud.

> Note
> 
> Don’t modify pre-defined dashboards. If you want to change a pre-defined dashboard, make a copy and then update it.

## Navigate to a pre-defined dashboard

To navigate to pre-defined dashboards, click .

This icon is available in a variety of locations within the knowledge graph.

## Link a custom dashboard to an entity or entity type

This section shows you how to link a custom dashboard to an entity or entity type so that it appears when you click the **KPI** icon in the knowledge graph.

### Before you begin

- Create the dashboard that you want to link to an entity.

### Steps

To link a custom dashboard, complete the following steps:

1. Sign into Grafana Cloud and click **Observability > Configuration > KPI display options**.
2. In the **Dashboard Name** field, select the dashboard you want to link.
3. In the **Entity Type** field, select an entity type.
4. In the **Query to link Dashboard to Entity Type** field, enter a query.
   
   To restrict the scope of linking, you can enter a PromQL query. This ensures that only entities with labels that match the query results are linked.
5. To specify the dashboard as the default, click **Make as Primary Dashboard**.
6. Click **Add New**.