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aliases:
  - dashboards/configure-panels-visualizations/
  - features/panels/panels/
  - panels/
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  - grafana
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  - panels
  - visualizations
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    - cloud
    - enterprise
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menuTitle: Panels and visualizations
title: Panels and visualizations
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# Panels and visualizations

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.

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.

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][].
- For details about using specific data sources, refer to [Data sources][].

This section includes the following sub topics:

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[Data source management]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/administration/data-source-management"
[Data source management]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/administration/data-source-management"

[Data sources]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/datasources"
[Data sources]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA VERSION>/datasources"
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