Configure panel options

There are settings common to all visualizations, which you set in the Panel options section of the panel editor pane. The following sections describe these options as well as how to set them.

Panel options

Set the following options to provide basic information about a panel and define basic display elements:

Option	Description
Title	Text entered in this field appears at the top of your panel in the panel editor and in the dashboard. You can use variables you have defined or global variables.
Description	Text entered in this field appears in a tooltip in the upper-left corner of the panel. Add a description to a panel to share with users any important information about it, such as its purpose. You can use variables you have defined or dashboard-scoped global variables (such as `$__from`, `$__to`, `$__dashboard`, `$__org`, and `$__user`). Query-scoped global variables (such as `$__interval` and `$__interval_ms`) are not available in this field.
Transparent background	Toggle this switch on and off to control whether or not the panel has the same background color as the dashboard.
Panel links	Add links to the panel to create shortcuts to other dashboards, panels, and external websites. Access panel links by clicking the icon next to the panel title.
Repeat options	Set whether to repeat the panel for each value in the selected variable. For more information, refer to Configure repeating panels.

You can use generative AI to populate the Title and Description fields with the Grafana LLM plugin, which is currently in public preview. To enable this, refer to Set up generative AI features for dashboards.

Description field formatting

Grafana renders the Description field as GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). You can use common Markdown and GFM features, including:

Emphasis: **bold**, _italic_, and ~~strikethrough~~
Structure: headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, horizontal rules, bulleted and numbered lists
Code: `inline code` and fenced code blocks
Links and media: [link text](https://example.com) and images ![alt](https://example.com/image.png)
Tables: GFM-style pipe tables

The description appears in a tooltip, so short copy and basic formatting work best. To break text into separate paragraphs, use an empty line between them, or use a list.

Grafana sanitizes the rendered HTML to reduce security risk and strips out or restricts arbitrary HTML, scripts, and many embedded elements, similar to Markdown in the Text visualization.

Configure repeating panels

You can configure Grafana to dynamically add panels to a dashboard. A dynamic panel is a panel that the system creates based on the value of a multi-value variable. Variables dynamically change your queries across all panels in a dashboard.

To see an example of repeating panels, refer to this dashboard with repeating panels.

For information about repeating rows and tabs, refer to Configure repeat options.

Before you begin:

Ensure that the query includes a multi-value variable.

To configure repeating panels, follow these steps:

Go to the dashboard you want to update and navigate to the panel you want to repeat.
If the dashboard is large, open the Content outline and use it to navigate to the part of the dashboard you want to update.
Click Edit.
Click the panel to open the sidebar.
Expand the Repeat options section.
Select the Repeat by variable.
For panels in a custom layout, set the following options:
Under Repeat direction, choose one of the following:
- Horizontal - Arrange panels side-by-side. Grafana adjusts the width of a repeated panel. You can’t mix other panels on a row with a repeated panel.
- Vertical - Arrange panels in a column. The width of repeated panels is the same as the original, repeated panel.
If you selected Horizontal, select a value in the Max per row drop-down list to control the maximum number of panels that can be in a row.
(Optional) To provide context to dashboard users, add the variable name to the panel, row, or tab title.
When you’ve finished setting the repeat option, click Save.
(Optional) Enter a description of the changes you’ve made.
Click Save.
Click Exit edit.
To propagate changes to all panels, reload the dashboard.