Beginner Guides on Grafana Labs

Dashboard Features

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Data Sources

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Data Source Overview

Grafana supports many different storage backends for your time series data (Data Source). Each Data Source has a specific Query Editor that is customized for the features and capabilities that the particular Data Source exposes.

Querying

The query language and capabilities of each Data Source are obviously very different. You can combine data from multiple Data Sources onto a single Dashboard, but each Panel is tied to a specific Data Source that belongs to a particular Organization.

Supported Data Sources

The following datasources are officially supported:

Data source plugins

Since grafana 3.0 you can install data sources as plugins. Checkout Grafana.net for more data sources.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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Keyboard shortcuts

Grafana v4 introduces a number of really powerful keyboard shortcuts. You can now focus a panel by hovering over it with your mouse. With a panel focused you can simple hit e to toggle panel edit mode, or v to toggle fullscreen mode. p r removes the panel. p s opens share modal.

Hit ? on your keyboard to open the shortcuts help modal.

Global

g h Go to Home Dashboard
g p Go to Profile
s o Open search
s s Open search with starred filter
s t Open search in tags view
esc Exit edit/setting views

Dashboard

mod+s Save dashboard
mod+h Hide row controls
d r Refresh all panels
d s Dashboard settings
d v Toggle in-active / view mode
d k Toggle kiosk mode (hides top nav)
mod+o Toggle shared graph crosshair

Focused Panel

e Toggle panel edit view
v Toggle panel fullscreen view
p s Open Panel Share Modal
p r Remove Panel

Focused Row

r c Collapse Row
r r Remove Row

Time Range

t z Zoom out time range
t Move time range back
t Move time range forward

Panels

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