Edit an existing synced dashboard

Editing a synced dashboard follows the standard Grafana editing process. You can add visualizations, modify existing panels, adjust dashboard settings, and configure variables. When you save changes to a provisioned dashboard, you choose whether to commit directly or create a pull request.

To edit an existing synced dashboard, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to Dashboards and open a dashboard in a Git Sync provisioned folder.

   For example, open the HTTP Request Monitoring dashboard you created earlier.

2. Click Edit in the dashboard toolbar to enter edit mode.

3. Make your desired changes to the dashboard.

   For example, add a new visualization by clicking Add > Visualization, select a data source, configure a query like rate(http_errors_total[5m]), and select a visualization type.

4. Click Apply to add the new visualization to the dashboard.

5. Optionally, modify dashboard settings by clicking the settings icon in the toolbar. You can adjust the default time range or add dashboard variables.

The dashboard now has unsaved changes. The edit mode remains active until you save the changes, which you’ll do in the next milestone using different Git workflows.

In the next milestone, you’ll save changes using a direct commit to the main branch.