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Build dashboards

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This section includes the following topics:

• Create a dashboard
• Import dashboards
• Modify dashboard settings
• Dashboard URL variables
• Manage library panels
• Manage dashboard version history
• Manage dashboard links
• Annotate visualizations
• JSON model
• Grafana dashboard best practices

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.