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Grafana Cloud
Enterprise
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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.
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