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Grafana Dashboards: Panels, Variables, Annotations, and Alerting

Grafana Dashboards: Panels, Variables, Annotations, and Alerting

Introduction

Grafana has become the industry standard for observability dashboards, providing unified visualization across metrics, logs, traces, and other data sources. Its modular architecture supports Prometheus, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Loki, Tempo, and dozens of other backends. Beyond visualization, Grafana has evolved into a full observability platform with alerting, anomaly detection, and incident management capabilities.

This article covers Grafana dashboard design in detail: panel types, template variables, annotations, alerting, and provisioning.

Panel Types and Visualization Options

Grafana offers a rich set of visualization panels.…