Before you start. Creating and editing dashboards requires the Editor
role. Viewers can read them. See
Roles and permissions.
Start from a template
Templates are pre-built dashboards for common shapes — a service overview, infrastructure, an error view. Creating from one gives you a working dashboard immediately, which you then edit.A dashboard created from a template is a copy, not a link. Editing it
changes nothing else, and a later change to the template does not reach it.
This is deliberate: a template that silently rewrote your dashboards would be
a worse property than a stale one.
Panels
Each panel carries its own query and visualisation and reads from the dashboard’s time range, so changing the range moves every panel together. Panel data is served through a short cache — 10 to 300 seconds depending on the panel — so two people opening the same dashboard do not run the same query twice. A panel can therefore be a few seconds behind live tail; that is the cache, not a delay in ingest.Versions and rollback
Every save creates a version, and you can roll back to any of them.This is the answer to “someone changed the dashboard and I do not know
what”. Rather than reconstructing the panel from memory, open the version
history and restore. Rolling back is itself a new version, so it is
reversible too.
Cloning
Cloning gives you an independent copy — the way to experiment on a dashboard that other people depend on without breaking it for them, and the way to build a per-environment variant.Snapshots: sharing outside your organization
A snapshot is a read-only, point-in-time copy of a dashboard at a URL. A snapshot is frozen. It shows the data as it was, does not update, and cannot be edited. Public dashboard sharing has exactly one door, which is this one — an ordinary dashboard URL is readable only by members of the organization that owns it.Saved queries
A saved query is a single query kept for reuse, without building a dashboard around it. Templates ship for common ones. Use a saved query for something you run repeatedly during investigations; use a dashboard for something you want to watch. See Searching logs.What a dashboard will not do
Next
Exploring metrics
What to put in a panel, and how resolution changes with range.
Alerting
For the things that must not wait for someone to look.
Grafana
Using aiAxonIQ as a datasource in dashboards you already have.