Grafana Dashboard Authoring

Dashboards are JSON documents stored in Grafana. Every dashboard has panels, variables, time range, and refresh settings. Understanding the JSON schema lets you programmatically create and modify dashboards via the API or Grafana Assistant tools.

Dashboard JSON structure

{
  "title": "My Dashboard",
  "uid": "my-dashboard-v1",
  "tags": ["service", "production"],
  "time": { "from": "now-1h", "to": "now" },
  "refresh": "30s",
  "timezone": "browser",
  "schemaVersion": 41,