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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 the Grafana dashboard UI

Let’s step back and look at a dashboard. It is divided into a title bar with several controls and a content area that contains our visualization panels and rows. We’ll spend plenty of time talking about how to add and organize dashboard content. For now, let’s become familiar with the dashboard’s title bar controls.

Grafana dashboard title bar

At the top of the dashboard is a title bar with the following controls:

  • Grafana menu toggle
  • Home dashboard breadcrumb
  • Add menu
  • Dashboard settings
  • Search bar toggle

We’ve already introduced the Grafana menu located on the far left of the dashboard title bar. We’ll now start with the breadcrumbs that indicate our dashboard page name and its position in the folder hierarchy.

Breadcrumbs

While navigating from one page to the next or into dashboard folders, the breadcrumb interface provides a series of links to each level in the...

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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803231082

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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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