1.**Dashboard folder** - When you click the dashboard folder name, you can search for other dashboards contained in the folder and perform other [folder management tasks](ref:dashboard-folders).
1.**Dashboard title** - You can create your own dashboard titles or have Grafana create them for you using [generative AI features](ref:generative-ai-features).
1.**Kiosk mode** - Click to display the dashboard on a large screen such as a TV or a kiosk. Kiosk mode hides the main menu, navbar, and dashboard controls. Learn more about kiosk mode in our [How to Create Kiosks to Display Dashboards on a TV blog post](https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/02/grafana-tutorial-how-to-create-kiosks-to-display-dashboards-on-a-tv/). Press `Esc` to leave kiosk mode.
1.**Dashboard insights** - Click to view analytics about your dashboard including information about users, activity, query counts. Learn more about [dashboard analytics](ref:dashboard-analytics).
1.**Edit** - Click to leave view-only mode and enter edit mode, where you can make changes directly to the dashboard and access dashboard settings, as well as several panel editing functions.
1.**Dashboard links** - Link to other dashboards, panels, and external websites. Learn more about [dashboard links](ref:dashboard-links).
1.**Current dashboard time range and time picker** - Click to select [relative time range](#relative-time-range) options and set custom [absolute time ranges](#absolute-time-range).
- You can change the **Timezone** and **Fiscal year** settings from the time range controls by clicking the **Change time settings** button.
- Time settings are saved on a per-dashboard basis.
1.**Time range zoom out** - Click to zoom out the time range. Learn more about how to use [common time range controls](#common-time-range-controls).
1.**Refresh dashboard** - Click to immediately trigger queries and refresh dashboard data.
1.**Auto refresh control** - Click to select a dashboard auto refresh time interval.
1.**Dashboard row** - A dashboard row is a logical divider within a dashboard that groups panels together.
- Rows can be collapsed or expanded allowing you to hide parts of the dashboard.
- Panels inside a collapsed row do not issue queries.
- Use [repeating rows](ref:repeating-rows) to dynamically create rows based on a template variable.
1.**Dashboard panel** - The [panel](ref:panel-overview) is the primary building block of a dashboard.
1.**Panel legend** - Change series colors as well as y-axis and series visibility directly from the legend.
Grafana has a number of keyboard shortcuts available. Press `?` on your keyboard to display all keyboard shortcuts available in your version of Grafana.
Grafana provides several ways to manage the time ranges of the data being visualized, for dashboard, panels and also for alerting.
This section describes supported time units and relative ranges, the common time controls, dashboard-wide time settings, and panel-specific time settings.
### Time units and relative ranges
Grafana supports the following time units: `s (seconds)`, `m (minutes)`, `h (hours)`, `d (days)`, `w (weeks)`, `M (months)`, `Q (quarters)` and `y (years)`.
The minus operator enables you to step back in time, relative to the current date and time, or `now`. If you want to display the full period of the unit (day, week, month, etc...), append `/<time unit>` to the end. To view fiscal periods, use `fQ (fiscal quarter)` and `fy (fiscal year)` time units.
Click the current time range to change it. You can change the current time using a _relative time range_, such as the last 15 minutes, or an _absolute time range_, such as `2020-05-14 00:00:00 to 2020-05-15 23:59:59`.
Select the relative time range from the **Relative time ranges** list. You can filter the list using the input field at the top. Some examples of time ranges include:
- Last 30 minutes
- Last 12 hours
- Last 7 days
- Last 2 years
- Yesterday
- Day before yesterday
- This day last week
- Today so far
- This week so far
- This month so far
#### Absolute time range
You can set an absolute time range in the following ways:
- Type values into the **From** and **To** fields. You can type exact time values or relative values, such as `now-24h`, and then click **Apply time range**.
- Click in the **From** or **To** field. Grafana displays a calendar. Click the day or days you want to use as the current time range and then click **Apply time range**.
This section also displays recently used absolute ranges.
You can also use the absolute time range settings to set a semi-relative time range. Semi-relative time range dashboards are useful when you need to monitor the progress of something over time, but you also want to see the entire history from a starting point.
Set a semi-relative time range by setting the start time to an absolute timestamp and the end time to a “now” that is relative to the current time. For example:
**Start time:** `2023-05-01 00:00:00`
**End time:** `now`
If you wanted to track the progress of something during business hours, you could set a time range that covers the current day, but starting at 8am, like so:
**Start time:** `now/d+8h`
**End time:** `now`
This is equivalent to the **Today so far** time range preset, but it starts at 8:00am instead of 12:00am by appending +8h to the periodic start time.
Using a semi-relative time range, as time progresses, your dashboard will automatically and progressively zoom out to show more history and fewer details. At the same rate, as high data resolution decreases, historical trends over the entire time period will become more clear.
You can copy and paste the time range from a dashboard to **Explore** and vice versa, or from one dashboard to another.
Click the **Copy time range to clipboard** icon to copy the current time range to the clipboard. Then paste the time range into **Explore** or another dashboard.
Click the **Zoom out** icon to view a larger time range in the dashboard or panel visualization.
#### Zoom in (only applicable to graph visualizations)
Click and drag to select the time range in the visualization that you want to view.
#### Refresh dashboard
Click the **Refresh dashboard** icon to immediately run every query on the dashboard and refresh the visualizations. Grafana cancels any pending requests when you trigger a refresh.
By default, Grafana does not automatically refresh the dashboard. Queries run on their own schedule according to the panel settings. However, if you want to regularly refresh the dashboard, click the down arrow next to the **Refresh dashboard** icon, and then select a refresh interval.
Selecting the **Auto** interval schedules a refresh based on the query time range and browser window width. Short time ranges update frequently, while longer ones update infrequently. There is no need to refresh more often then the pixels available to draw any updates.
Once you've [added an ad hoc filter](ref:add-ad-hoc-filters) in the dashboard settings, you can create label/value filter pairs on the dashboard.
These filters are applied to all metric queries that use the specified data source and to all panels on the dashboard.
To filter dashboard data, follow these steps:
1. On the dashboard, click in the filter field.
1. Select a label, operator, and value.
To add multiple values for one label, choose one of the multi-select operators, **One of** (`=|`) or **Not one of** (`!=|`). These operators only appear if the filter data source supports it.
1. Repeat this process as needed until you have all the filters you need.
### Edit or delete filters
To edit or delete filters, follow these steps:
1. On the dashboard, click anywhere on the filter you want to change.
1. Do one of the following:
- To edit the operator or value of a filter, click anywhere on the filter and update it.
- To change the filter label, you must delete the filter and create a new one.
