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What's new from Grafana Labs
What's new from Grafana Labs
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Release date: 2026-02-27

Customize dashboard templates with Grafana Assistant

We’ve integrated Grafana Assistant into dashboard templates, so you can now ask the Assistant to help you with the process.

Templates are a powerful way to create dashboards quickly, but they don’t always match your real-world metric names or data sources. The Assistant bridges that gap by:

  • Identifying what the template expects (panel types, description, likely data).
  • Matching those expectations to the data sources you actually have.
  • Creating a dashboard tailored for your environment (and guiding you through any follow-up choices).

This reduces work and makes it faster to create a working, relevant dashboard from a template without the need to manually map metrics and panels.

Selection of dashboard templates

Note

Grafana Assistant can query a subset of data sources, so customizing with Assistant for other data sources might generate poor results. For an up-to-date list of supported data sources, refer to the Assistant documentation.


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