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R. McCollamGetting Started with Grafanahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8309-7_10

10. Dashboard Variables

Ronald McCollam1  
(1)
Somerville, MA, USA
 

So far, we’ve focused on building a view for every set of data that you want to see. Your dashboards have been useful and interesting, but static – each panel’s data source and query has been set when you create it and doesn’t change.

In this chapter, we’ll move beyond this static representation of data and start to use variables to make your dashboards more dynamic.

Variables are a powerful feature of Grafana that allow a great deal of flexibility and dynamic control of your dashboards. Variables can be used to ...

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