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Eric Salituro
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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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Exploring Grafana—the Home dashboard

After logging into the Grafana application, you should end up on the Home dashboard, as shown in the following figure. Here, I’ve annotated some of the key UI elements in the Grafana interface:

Figure 2.1 – The Home dashboard

Figure 2.1 – The Home dashboard

The following are key UI elements located on the Home dashboard:

  1. The Grafana logo button: This returns the user to the Home dashboard.
  2. Organization menu: This allows you to switch organizations.
  3. Search or jump to…: This searches for or jumps to various actions, pages, or preferences.
  4. Dashboard menu: This adds or imports dashboards and creates alert rules.
  5. Help menu: This links to documentation, support, and community pages.
  6. Grafana News: This opens the latest Grafana blog posts.
  7. User menu: This links to the user profile and preference settings or signs the user out.
  8. Menu toggle: This opens the main menu.
  9. Add menu: This adds panel...
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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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