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Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

You're reading from   Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana Power up your IoT projects and monitor with Prometheus, LibreNMS, and Elasticsearch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236124
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodrigo Juan Hernandez Rodrigo Juan Hernandez
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Meeting Grafana
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Grafana 4. Part 2: Collecting Data from IoT Devices
5. Chapter 3: Connecting IoT Devices 6. Chapter 4: Data Sources for Grafana 7. Chapter 5: Using Time Series Databases 8. Part 3: Connecting Data Sources and Building Dashboards
9. Chapter 6: Getting Data and Building Dashboards 10. Chapter 7: Managing Plugins 11. Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Dashboards 12. Part 4: Performing Analytics and Notifications
13. Chapter 9: Performing Analytics in Grafana 14. Chapter 10: Alerting and Notifications in Grafana 15. Part 5: Integrating Grafana with Other Platforms
16. Chapter 11: Using Grafana with Prometheus 17. Chapter 12: Using Grafana with OpenSearch 18. Chapter 13: Showing Data from LibreNMS in Grafana 19. Chapter 14: Integrations for Grafana Cloud 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linking and sharing dashboards

In this section, you will learn how to link dashboards to achieve better navigation. You will also learn how to share dashboards.

Linking dashboards and panels

You can use links to navigate between dashboards, panels, and even external sites. Links allow you to build a better experience for the user. For example, you may have related data distributed among several dashboards. In this case, links are a good tool for rapid and easy navigation.

In Grafana, you can use dashboard links, panel links, and data links. Dashboard links are shown at the top of the dashboard, whereas you can see panel links in the top-left corner of the panel.

Dashboard links

In a dashboard link, you can include the time range and variables, so the user can see the right data. Let’s see how to create a dashboard link.

Figure 8.18 – Creating a dashboard link

To add links to dashboards, follow these steps (see Figure 8.18):

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