| app plugin |
An extension of Grafana that allows users to provide additional functionality to enhance their experience by including a set of panel and data source plugins, as well as custom pages. See also data source plugin, panel plugin, and plugin.
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| dashboard |
A set of one or more panels, organized and arranged into one or more rows, that provide an at-a-glance view of related information.
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| data source |
A file, database, or service providing the data. Grafana supports several data sources by default, and can be extended to support additional data sources through plugins.
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| data source plugin |
Extends Grafana with support for additional data sources. See also data source, app plugin, panel plugin, and plugin.
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| exemplar |
An exemplar is any data that serves as a detailed example of one of the observations aggregated into a metric. An exemplar contains the observed value together with an optional timestamp and arbitrary labels, which are typically used to reference a trace.
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| Explore |
Explore allows a user to focus on building a query. Users can refine the query to return the expected metrics before building a dashboard. For more information, refer to the Explore topic.
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| export or import dashboard |
Grafana includes the ability to export your dashboards to a file containing JSON. Community members sometimes share their created dashboards on the Grafana Dashboards page. Dashboards previously exported or found on this site may be imported by other users.
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| exporter |
An exporter translates data that comes out of a data source into a format that Prometheus can digest.
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| Integration (Grafana Cloud) |
Each Integration in Grafana Cloud uses the cloud agent to connect your data source to Grafana Cloud for visualizing. Note: Prometheus uses the word “integrations” to refer to software that exposes Prometheus metrics without needing an exporter, which is a different use of the same word we use here.
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| graph |
A commonly-used visualization that displays data as points, lines, or bars.
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| mixin |
A mixin is a set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus rules and alerts, written in Jsonnet and packaged together in a bundle.
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| panel |
Basic building block in Grafana, composed by a query and a visualization. Can be moved and resized within a dashboard.
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| panel plugin |
Extends Grafana with additional visualization options. See also panel, plugin, app plugin, and data source plugin.
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| plugin |
An extension of Grafana that allows users to provide additional functionality to enhance their experience. See also app plugin, data source plugin, and panel plugin.
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| query |
Used to request data from a data source. The structure and format of the query depend on the specific data source.
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| time series |
A series of measurements, ordered by time. Time series are stored in data sources and returned as the result of a query.
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| trace |
An observed execution path of a request through a distributed system. For more information, refer to What is Distributed Tracing?
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| transformation |
Transformations process the result set of a query before it’s passed on for visualization. For more information, refer to the Transformations overview topic.
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| visualization |
A graphical representation of query results. |