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Dashboard preview for Aiven for Grafana®

Grafana's dashboard previews provide a visual overview of your dashboards, displaying each configured dashboard as a graphical thumbnail.

Dashboard previews are an optional beta feature available in Grafana 9.0+. By default, this feature is disabled on Aiven for Grafana® services.

Enable dashboard previews​

  1. In the Aiven Console, select your project and choose your Aiven for Grafana® service.

  2. Click Service settings in the sidebar.

  3. Scroll down to Advanced configuration and click Configure.

  4. In the Advanced configuration window, click Add configuration options.

  5. Find and set dashboard_previews_enabled to Enabled.

  6. Click Save configuration. The status next to dashboard_previews_enabled changes to synced.

  7. Click Overview. From the Connection information, copy the Service URI into your browser to open the Grafana login page.

  8. Enter the username and password from the Connection information, and click Log in.

  9. Click Dashboards in the left menu, and select the grid layout to view dashboard previews. Previews are displayed as thumbnails and can be sorted alphabetically.

    Dashboard previews on Grafana

Limitations​

  • Dashboard previews are not available for Hobbyist and Startup-1 plans.
  • Before downgrading your service plan to Hobbyist or Startup-1, first disable dashboard previews.

For more information on Dashboard previews, see Grafana documentation.