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Section 3 · Use the dashboards and alerts an integration comes with

Find and read the prebuilt dashboards an integration provides

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Find and read your dashboards

After Alloy starts collecting and sending data, your prebuilt dashboards are ready in Grafana Cloud.

Open a dashboard

Find your integration’s dashboards in three steps:

  1. Click Dashboards in the main menu.
  2. Open the integration’s folder. For example, the Linux server integration creates a Linux Node folder.
  3. Select a dashboard to open it. For example, Nodes is a good starting dashboard for the Linux server integration.

Read what you see

A dashboard is empty until the first scrape, then the panels fill in. The scrape interval (the time between each collection) determines how soon data appears.

Note

If the panels are still empty after a scrape interval, refer to Troubleshoot Integration installations.

  • Time range: Sets the window of data shown, such as the last hour.
  • Refresh: Reruns the queries to pull the latest data.
  • Variables: Filter the dashboard, for example by instance.