Exploring the Grafana dashboard UI
Let’s step back and look at a dashboard. It is divided into a title bar with several controls and a content area that contains our visualization panels and rows. We’ll spend plenty of time talking about how to add and organize dashboard content. For now, let’s become familiar with the dashboard’s title bar controls.
Grafana dashboard title bar
At the top of the dashboard is a title bar with the following controls:
- Grafana menu toggle
- Home dashboard breadcrumb
- Add menu
- Dashboard settings
- Search bar toggle
We’ve already introduced the Grafana menu located on the far left of the dashboard title bar. We’ll now start with the breadcrumbs that indicate our dashboard page name and its position in the folder hierarchy.
Breadcrumbs
While navigating from one page to the next or into dashboard folders, the breadcrumb interface provides a series of links to each level in the...
