Chapter 10, Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards

1. Grafana supports automatic provisioning of data sources by reading YAML definitions from a provisioning path at startup.
2. Steps to import a dashboard from the Grafana gallery are as follows:
   1. Choose a dashboard ID from the grafana.com gallery.
   2. In the target Grafana instance, click on the plus sign in the main menu on the left-hand side and select Import from the sub-menu.
   3. Paste the chosen ID in the appropriate text field.

3. Variables allow a dashboard to configure placeholders that can be used in expressions and title strings, and those placeholders can be filled with values from either a static or dynamic list, which are usually presented to the dashboard user in the form of a drop-down menu. Whenever the selected value changes, Grafana will automatically update the queries in panels and title strings that use that respective...