Reader small image

You're reading from  Learn Grafana 10.x - Second Edition

Product typeBook
Published inDec 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803231082
Edition2nd Edition
Right arrow
Author (1)
Eric Salituro
Eric Salituro
author image
Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro

Right arrow

Managing dashboards and folders

By now, you’ve probably created at least a handful of dashboards, if only to work through the examples in this book. Ideally, you’re well on your way to creating many more, along with other members of your team, unit, and even your entire company. What you’ll quickly find – if you haven’t already – is that you’ve ended up with a number of dashboards in various stages of development and potentially connected to a number of data sources, all of them lying around in the dashboard display.

Conceptually, Grafana provides four classification schemes aimed at helping you identify dashboards to satisfy common organizational needs. The first is what I call a significance-based scheme, which identifies the most important dashboard through a starred or favorited designation. The second is a structure-based scheme, which places dashboards into an arbitrary hierarchical structure of folders. The third scheme is...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Learn Grafana 10.x - Second Edition
Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803231082

Author (1)

author image
Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro