Grafana documentation Dashboards Build dashboards

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.