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title: "Search | Grafana documentation"
description: "Use the command palette to search all of Grafana and initiate key actions"
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# Grafana search

Use the command palette to search all of Grafana and to initiate key actions from any page in the application.

## Command palette

The command palette allows you to:

- Search for and open dashboards and folders
- Create dashboards and alert rules
- Locate pages within Grafana
- Change the theme to dark or light
- Run Sift investigations

To open the command palette, press `cmd+K` in macOS or `ctrl+k` in Linux/Windows. You can also click on the input located in the navigation bar.

> Note
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> To go to the previous step, press `backspace` with the command palette input empty.