Grafana Dashboards

Dashboards are JSON: panels on a 24-column grid, fed by data-source queries, shaped by client-side transformations, styled by standard options and overrides, parameterized by template variables, connected through annotations and links. Data shape drives the visualization; variables make dashboards reusable; links carry context across navigation.

Scope

• In scope: dashboard JSON (Classic and V2 schemas), panel selection and configuration, standard options, thresholds, value mappings, field overrides, transformations, all variable types, repeating panels/rows/tabs, annotations, dashboard/panel/data links, library panels, version history, panel editor and inspector.
• Out of scope:
  • Data source query languages — promql, logsql, metricsql are sibling skills. This skill governs how queries wire into panels, not query syntax.
  • Grafana Alerting — alert rules, contact points, notification policies belong to the alerting sibling skill. Panel-attached alert rules and the panel editor's Alert tab are integration points only.
  • Provisioning, file-based dashboards, dashboards-as-code tooling — Terraform, Grizzly, Foundation SDK, Helm charts, provisioning/dashboards/*.yaml belong to the provisioning sibling skill. This skill covers the JSON those tools emit.