Working with Grafana panels on Grafana Labs

Organize a dashboard

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:30:01 +0000

Organize a dashboard

You can place any panel in any location you want and controls its size. The changes you make impact other users of the dashboard.

Before you begin

Add two or more panels
Ensure that you sign in with Editor permissions

To organize a dashboard:

Hover your cursor over the panel, and click-and-drag the panel to its new location.
To resize a panel, click the zoom in (+) and zoom out (-) icons.

Tips and shortcuts

Click the graph title and in the dropdown menu quickly duplicate the panel.
Click the colored icon in the legend to change a series color or the y-axis.
Click series name in the legend to hide series.
Ctrl/Shift/Meta + click legend name to hide other series.
Hover your cursor over a panel and press e to open the panel editor.
Hover your cursor over a panel and press v to open the panel in full screen view..

Navigate the Grafana Inspector panel

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:30:01 +0000

Navigate the Grafana Inspector panel

The panel inspector helps you understand and troubleshoot your panels. You can inspect the raw data for any Grafana panel, export that data to a comma-separated values (CSV) file, view query requests, and export panel and data JSON.

Note: Not all panel types include all tabs. For example, dashboard list panels do not have raw data to inspect, so they do not display the Stats, Data, or Query tabs.

The panel inspector consists of the following options:

The panel inspector displays Inspect: at the top of the pane. Click the arrow in the upper right corner to expand or reduce the pane.
Data tab - Shows the raw data returned by the query with transformations applied. Field options such as overrides and value mappings are not applied by default.
Stats tab - Shows how long your query takes and how much it returns.
JSON tab - Allows you to view and copy the panel JSON, panel data JSON, and data frame structure JSON. This is useful if you are provisioning or administering Grafana.
Query tab - Shows you the requests to the server sent when Grafana queries the data source.
Error tab - Shows the error. Only visible when query returns error.

Download query results

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Download query results

Grafana generates a text (.txt) file that contains the results of a query, which you can download.

Before you begin

Add a query.

To download query results:

Open the panel inspector.
Inspect the query results.
Click Download.