Expanding Grafana’s main menu
The Grafana menu has been somewhat restructured in Grafana 10 compared to previous versions. Some items have been moved to other parts of the interface while others have been renamed. Many of the main menu items have additional submenu items that can be revealed by clicking on the disclosure icon. The state of the Grafana menu is kept even when it is hidden. A complete explanation of each item will not be provided here, but rest assured that we will cover most of them in later chapters of this book!
At the top level are the following Grafana menu options:
- Home
- Starred
- Dashboards
- Explore
- Alerting
- Connections
- Administration
The icons in this menu lead to some of the most common yet impressive features of Grafana. For example, from this menu you can do the following:
- Return to the Home dashboard
- Create and manage dashboards and folders
- Explore data sources in an ad hoc fashion
- Create and...
