Introducing the Grafana search bar

There are two main UI components visible on the Home dashboard:

• Search bar at the top
• Dashboard below

Each dashboard UI is organized around two main components:

• A dashboard title bar containing the main menu
• Dashboard rows and panels

Let’s start by taking a look at the controls on our Home dashboard. Depending upon the nature of the dashboard, you may see additional controls, which we will highlight later. For now, let’s keep things simple by looking at the basic controls.

At the top of the interface is the search bar. This contains several navigational features. If you’re familiar with older versions of Grafana, you will know that they were located in a side menu.

The portion of the dashboard that contains panels is the entire space below the title bar (as seen in Figure 2.1). The title bar contains the main side menu on the left and a set of controls on the right. The controls enable...