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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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Glancing at the sidebar menu

Let's take a look at the more common sidebar menu buttons. Unless you are running Grafana in a special display mode, this menu bar will appear alongside your dashboard. Depending on the context, it may be accompanied by additional buttons, but we will look at the basic set.

The dashboards button

At the top of the dashboard is the dashboards button:

It displays the name of the current dashboard, and clicking on it takes you to the same dashboard search page as the search button described in the following section.

The dashboard panels

Below the dashboards button are the dashboard panels. Besides graphical data, panels can convey a wide variety of information, including textual and numerical data, spreadsheet-like tables, and lists of dashboards. The current Home dashboard serves as a landing page for the Grafana application by default, but you can always change the default to...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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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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