Exploring Grafana – the Home dashboard

After logging in to the Grafana application, you should end up on the Home dashboard, as shown. Here, I've annotated some of the key UI elements in the Grafana interface:

Here are the UI elements visible on the default Home dashboard:

1. The Grafana logo button: Returns the user to the Home dashboard
2. The dashboards button: Displays the current dashboard
3. The dashboard settings and view mode
4. The dashboard panel: Shows the favorite and recently viewed dashboards
5. The side menu bar: Provides navigation to common tasks and pages
6. The user and help buttons

Grafana is structured around two main interactive UI components that together constitute its core functionality: dashboards and panels. The page in the preceding screenshot is composed of a side menu bar to the left and a dashboard to the right—specifically...