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title: "Google Sheets | Grafana Labs"
description: "The Google Sheets data source."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Google Sheets: Spreadsheet data in dashboards

**What it’s for:** Human-maintained data including on-call schedules, manual logs, budgets, and targets.

## Trade-offs

| Pros                           | Cons                           |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| Non-technical users can update | Requires Google authentication |
| Real-time collaboration        | Sheet size limits              |
| Familiar interface             | Not for high-volume data       |
| Easy data entry                | API rate limits                |

## Best for

- On-call schedules
- Manual tracking and logs
- Application targets and KPIs
- Data non-engineers maintain

> **Tip**: Use named ranges for stable queries as sheets evolve.

## Documentation

View the full documentation. *Learning path coming soon!*

[Google Sheets data source](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-googlesheets-datasource/)