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---
aliases:
- dashboards/configure-panels-visualizations/
- features/panels/panels/
- panels/
keywords:
- grafana
- configure
- panels
- visualizations
labels:
products:
- cloud
- enterprise
- oss
menuTitle: Panels and visualizations
title: Panels and visualizations
description: Learn about and configure panels and visualizations
weight: 80
---
# 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:
{{< section >}}
{{% docs/reference %}}
[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"
{{% /docs/reference %}}