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<table>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Dashboard</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">app plugin</td>
<td>
An extension of Grafana that allows users to provide additional functionality to enhance their experience by including a set of panel and data source plugins, as well as custom pages. See also <i>data source plugin</i>, <i>panel plugin</i>, and <i>plugin</i>.
</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">dashboard</td>
<td>
A set of one or more panels, organized and arranged into one or more rows, that provide an at-a-glance view of related information.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top">Data source</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">data source</td>
<td>
A file, database, or service providing the data. Grafana supports several data sources by default, and can be extended to support additional data sources through plugins.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top">Exemplar</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">data source plugin</td>
<td>
Extends Grafana with support for additional data sources. See also <i>data source</i>, <i>app plugin</i>, <i>panel plugin</i>, and <i>plugin</i>.
</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">exemplar</td>
<td>
An exemplar is any data that serves as a detailed example of one of the observations aggregated into a metric. An exemplar contains the observed value together with an optional timestamp and arbitrary labels, which are typically used to reference a trace.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Export/Import dashboard</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">export or import dashboard</td>
<td>
Grafana includes the ability to export your dashboards to a file containing JSON. Community members sometimes share their created dashboards on the <a href="https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards">Grafana Dashboards page</a>. Dashboards previously exported or found on this site may be imported by other users.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Exporter</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">exporter</td>
<td>
An exporter translates data that comes out of a data source into a format that Prometheus can digest.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Graph</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">graph</td>
<td>
A commonly-used visualization that displays data as points, lines, or bars.
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Mixin</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">mixin</td>
<td>
A mixin is a set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus rules and alerts, written in Jsonnet and packaged together in a bundle.
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</tr>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Panel</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">panel</td>
<td>
Basic building block in Grafana, composed by a query and a visualization. Can be moved and resized within a dashboard.
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</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top">Plugin</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">panel plugin</td>
<td>
An extension of Grafana that allows users to provide additional functionality to enhance their experience. The types of plugins currently supported are:
<ul>
<li>
<b>App plugin:</b> Extends Grafana with a customized experience. It includes a set of panel and data source plugins, as well as custom pages.
</li>
<li>
<b>Data source plugin:</b> Extends Grafana with support for additional data sources.
</li>
<li>
<b>Panel plugin:</b> Extends Grafana with additional visualization options.
</li>
</ul>
Extends Grafana with additional visualization options. See also <i>panel</i>, <i>plugin</i>, <i>app plugin</i>, and <i>data source plugin</i>.
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Query</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">plugin</td>
<td>
An extension of Grafana that allows users to provide additional functionality to enhance their experience. See also <i>app plugin</i>, <i>data source plugin</i>, and <i>panel plugin</i>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top">query</td>
<td>
Used to request data from a data source. The structure and format of the query depend on the specific data source.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Time series</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">time series</td>
<td>
A series of measurements, ordered by time. Time series are stored in data sources and returned as the result of a query.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Trace</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">trace</td>
<td>
An observed execution path of a request through a distributed system. For more information, refer to <a href="https://opentracing.io/docs/overview/what-is-tracing/">What is Distributed Tracing?</a>
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Transformation</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">transformation</td>
<td>
Transformations process the result set of a query before it’s passed on for visualization. For more information, refer to the <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels/transformations">Transformations overview</a> topic.
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<td style="vertical-align: top">Visualization</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top">visualization</td>
<td>A graphical representation of query results.</td>
</tr>
</table>