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Build dashboards
This section includes the following topics:
- Create a dashboard
- Modify dashboard settings
- Grafana dashboard best practices
- Dashboard URL variables
- Manage library panels
- Manage dashboard version history
- Manage dashboard links
- Annotate visualizations
- JSON model
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.
Related resources from Grafana Labs
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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