Linking dashboards

Now that you have your dashboards set up, you may have noticed that navigating between dashboards can be a bit tedious. To go to a different dashboard, you click the dashboard’s name, click the Grafana logo, or click the Dashboards sidebar menu, and then you look for your dashboard and click on it. This isn’t very efficient, and it makes it difficult to deploy your dashboards as a coherent site that doesn’t force your users to go rummaging through a lot of dashboards that aren’t relevant to them, in search of the ones that are.

Fortunately, you’re in luck! Grafana provides a simple, dashboard-level linking system to facilitate the creation of navigable dashboards. Dashboard linking supports intra-dashboard links via tagging, or inter-dashboard via URL. Let’s see how that works for our newly created dashboards.

Adding dashboard tags

The first step is to make a copy of the dashboard you created in the previous section...