Inside the provided VM test environment, you had the opportunity to try out the bundled dashboard. Now, it's time to learn how to build your own, but for that, you will need to grasp some concepts. In this section, we'll walk you through the process of creating a dashboard.
Building your own dashboards
Dashboard fundamentals
A dashboard is composed of several components. We'll go over the most important concepts in the following sections, including panels, the visualizations they support, how to template variables, and changing the time range of the displayed data.
