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Creating a Dashboard

To create a new dashboard, click on the Create Dashboard button on the top right corner of the dashboards view. You can start from a blank dashboard or from a dashboard template.

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Editing a Dashboard

To edit a dashboard, click on the Edit button on the dashboard card. You can add new charts and groups by clicking the Add widget button on the dashboard view. When creating a new chart, you’ll run through the chart creation wizard where you can search for metrics, select aggregations and filters, and customize the chart appearance. Open Dashboard settings to add or remove tags. Tags can group dashboards by service, environment, owner, or another organization-wide convention, and can be used to filter both dashboard list and tree views. See Alert and Dashboard Tags for normalization rules and API behavior.
Tags on Kubernetes-managed and ConfigMap-managed dashboards are read-only in Metoro. Change the external resource and sync it instead.

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Dashboard Tag Tabs

When a dashboard shares a tag with at least one other dashboard you can read, the dashboard view shows a tab strip at the top listing every dashboard with that tag, ordered alphabetically. Clicking a tab switches to that dashboard while keeping your selected time range. This lets a group of related dashboards behave like the pages of a single dashboard: tag them all with the same tag (for example checkout) and flip between them with one click. A tag picker to the left of the tabs chooses which of the dashboard’s tags the tabs are drawn from. The last tag you pick is remembered in the browser: whenever an opened dashboard carries that tag (shared with at least one other dashboard), it is preselected; otherwise the dashboard’s first tag with shared dashboards is used. The tab strip is hidden while editing a dashboard. To turn it off entirely, disable Dashboard tag tabs under Settings → Display Settings (a per-browser preference).

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Importing and Exporting Dashboards

You can also import existing dashboard configurations or export your dashboards as JSON:
  • To import: Use the dashboard settings to import a JSON configuration. Metoro dashboard JSON retains its tags; Grafana imports start untagged. For Grafana dashboard JSON, see Import Grafana Dashboards.
  • To export: Access the dashboard settings and select the export option to download the dashboard configuration as JSON.
This feature is particularly useful for sharing dashboard configurations across teams or backing up your dashboard setups.