Exploring Grafana—the Home dashboard

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

Figure 2.1 – The Home dashboard

The following are key UI elements located on the Home dashboard:

1. The Grafana logo button: This returns the user to the Home dashboard.
2. Organization menu: This allows you to switch organizations.
3. Search or jump to…: This searches for or jumps to various actions, pages, or preferences.
4. Dashboard menu: This adds or imports dashboards and creates alert rules.
5. Help menu: This links to documentation, support, and community pages.
6. Grafana News: This opens the latest Grafana blog posts.
7. User menu: This links to the user profile and preference settings or signs the user out.
8. Menu toggle: This opens the main menu.
9. Add menu: This adds panel...