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Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations

Name: Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations
Author: Ronald McCollam
ISBN: 9781484283097

by Ronald McCollam

August 2022

Beginner

367 pages

8h 31m

English

Apress

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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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