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- dashboards/configure-panels-visualizations/
- features/panels/panels/
- panels/
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- grafana
- configure
- panels
- visualizations
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menuTitle: Panels and visualizations
title: Panels and visualizations
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# Panels and visualizations
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The _panel_ is the basic visualization building block in Grafana.
Each panel has a query editor specific to the data source selected in the panel.
The query editor allows you to build a query that returns the data you want to visualize.
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There are a wide variety of styling and formatting options for each panel.
Panels can be dragged, dropped, and resized to rearrange them on the dashboard.
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Before you add a panel, ensure that you have configured a data source.
- For more information about adding and managing data sources as an administrator, refer to [Data source management ]({{< relref "../administration/data-source-management/" >}} ).
- For details about using specific data sources, refer to [Data sources ]({{< relref "../datasources/" >}} ).
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This section includes the following sub topics:
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