Organizations, dashboards, and panels

The user interface of Grafana is organized using a hierarchical structure.

From a high level to low, the structure is organizations, dashboards, and panels. Let’s understand these three entities.

Organizations

In Grafana, you can build multiple organizations to organize dashboards. Imagine you have several departments in an enterprise, and each of them is interested in different metrics.

You can create different organizations and assign the users of each department to the corresponding organization. In this way, each user only accesses the information that is relevant to them.

So, with a single instance of Grafana, you can manage information across all organizations without messing them up.

You can also assign a user to one or many organizations. Imagine a general manager that wants to see relevant information on the departments that depend on them. Each of these areas can have its organizational entities with dashboards...