Grafana Campfire - Data Visualization Tips and Best Practices (Grafana Community Call- April 2025)
📊 Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level.
Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?
Also, what are the best practices to create a good dashboard panel so that looks clean and easier for others to understand how it works and make visualize data meaningful?
Join and listen from our experts *Kristina Durivage* and *Galen Kistler* and bring all your questions live in the chat!!
We will be also joined by *David Kaltschmidt, Carl Bergquist* and *Syed Usman Ahmad* to discuss in more details and answer all your questions!
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00:00 Introductions
05:06 Sharing important tips before asking for help to fix a dashboard
06:26 When to stop using further Transformations?
07:52 How to get help
10:10 Using the Inspect view
10:50 Transformations Tips
16:35 *Q:Is there a way to display the same panel in multiple different dashboards?*
19:52 *Q: We need a dashboard variable that can read from multiple data sources.....*
21:44 *Q: I am seeing a lot of k8s operators that come with monitoring dashboards in the repos. what are the ways to consume them?*
23:00 *Q: Correct way to fix a dashboard if it does not work after importing it, while it worked in the previous version of Grafana?*
25:56: How to get help to report back to Grafana?
31:24 *Q:What is your favorite panel in Grafana and why? Is it a standard panel or not?*
38:13 *Q (part-1): Do you prefer one complex dashboard or a set of small dashboards with the Data Links between each other?*
38:21 *Q (part-2) What is the best case for making one complex dashboard? What is the best use case for using a set of dashboards with the Data Links?*
44:25 Transformation Examples
52:30 Wrap-up
�� *HELPFUL LINKS*
Learn more about Data Transformation:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/query-transform-data/transform-data
Grafana Dashboard Variables:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/variables/
Transformation Dashboard Example:
https://play.grafana.org/d/53009e3a-5c80-40f6-b9f1-244fc2c31516/data-viz-campfire-call
Grafana Community forum for asking questions:
https://community.grafana.com
Grafana Community Slack:
https://slack.grafana.com
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