From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Grafana panels
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Grafana panels
- [Instructor] A Grafana panel is a fundamental building block of dashboards. It is composed of a query and a visualization. You can build queries using a panel's query data to return the exact data you want to visualize. You can also apply transformations to process query results. In chapter four, we'll explore panels in depth and discuss the different types. For now, let's get a good overview. You cannot make a dashboard without panels. There are versatile tools that can be dragged, dropped, and resized to create good dashboards. Grafana provides several panel types, ranging from simple to complex visualizations, like heat maps and 3D charts. So how do panels work? Every panel comes with some key features. The first is a title and description, which provides context about the display data. Next, we have links to connect panels with other dashboards, other panels, or even external sites. Next, we have the menu that provides access to various actions such as inspecting, editing, and…
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