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title: "Add an issues (open/closed) panel to a dashboard | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to add a dashboard panel that visualizes GitHub issues data, including open and closed issues over time."
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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).

# Add an issues (open/closed) panel to a dashboard

In this milestone, you create a new dashboard and add a panel that displays GitHub issues data, including the count of open and closed issues over time.

01. Navigate to **Dashboards** from the main menu.
02. Click **New** and select **New dashboard**.
03. Open the panel editor by doing one of the following:
    
    - If you see an **Add visualization** button or placeholder, click it.
    - If you see a **Configure visualization** button, click it.
    - If you see a **+** icon in the top toolbar, click it and select **Configure**.
    
    Any of these options opens the panel editor.
04. Click the **data source** dropdown and select your GitHub data source from the list. If you have multiple data sources, look for the one named after your GitHub connection.
05. If you see a **New query editor** banner with a **Back to classic** button, click **Back to classic**. The GitHub data source requires the classic query editor to show the Query Type dropdown.
06. In the query editor at the bottom of the screen, find the **Query Type** dropdown and choose **Issues**.
07. Enter your GitHub organization name in the **Owner** field. For example, `grafana`.
08. Enter your repository name in the **Repository** field. For example, `grafana`.
09. In the query editor, find the **Time Field** dropdown and select **Created At**.
10. Select **Table** as the visualization type.
11. In the **Panel options** on the right, enter a title for your panel in the **Title** field. For example, `GitHub Issues (Open/Closed) Overview`.
12. Click **Save dashboard**. In the dialog that appears, enter a title for your dashboard and click **Save**.
13. Click **Back to dashboard** to exit the panel editor and return to the dashboard view.

The panel now displays a Table visualization showing issue trends over time.

In the next milestone, you’ll create a similar panel for pull request data.