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Published inDec 2023
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Eric Salituro
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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
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Expanding Grafana’s main menu

The Grafana menu has been somewhat restructured in Grafana 10 compared to previous versions. Some items have been moved to other parts of the interface while others have been renamed. Many of the main menu items have additional submenu items that can be revealed by clicking on the disclosure icon. The state of the Grafana menu is kept even when it is hidden. A complete explanation of each item will not be provided here, but rest assured that we will cover most of them in later chapters of this book!

At the top level are the following Grafana menu options:

  • Home
  • Starred
  • Dashboards
  • Explore
  • Alerting
  • Connections
  • Administration

The icons in this menu lead to some of the most common yet impressive features of Grafana. For example, from this menu you can do the following:

  • Return to the Home dashboard
  • Create and manage dashboards and folders
  • Explore data sources in an ad hoc fashion
  • Create and...
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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
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