UI components¶
Key
- Main menu (also Grafana menu, side menu)
- Navigation bar
- View controls
- View selectors (dynamic contents)
- Shortcut menu (dynamic contents)
Main menu¶
The main menu is part of the Grafana framework and is visible on every page.
Item (Top) | Name | Description |
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Home | Link to home dashboard. | |
Search | Search dashboards by name. | |
Create | Create dashboards or folders, import dashboards. | |
Dashboards | Manage dashboards, create playlists, manage snapshots. | |
PMM Dashboards | Replacement for shortcut menu. | |
Explore | Run queries with PromQL. | |
Alerting | Alerting, Integrated Alerting, Alert Rules, Notification Channels. | |
Configuration | ||
Server Admin | ||
Backup Management | Backup management and storage location configuration. | |
PMM Database Checks | ||
DBaaS |
Tip
The DBaaS icon appears only if a server feature flag has been set.
The Backup Management icon appears when Backup Management is activated in Configuration → Settings → Advanced Settings.
Icon (Bottom) | Description |
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(Profile icon) | User menu |
Help |
Navigation bar¶
Item (left) | Description |
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(Display only.) | |
(Name) / | (Optional) Folder name. |
(Name) | Dashboard name. |
Mark as favorite. | |
Share dashboard. |
View controls¶
Item (right) | Description |
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Dashboard settings. | |
Cycle view mode. | |
(time range) | Time range selector. |
Time range zoom out. | |
Refresh dashboard. | |
(Time interval) | Refresh period. |
View selectors¶
This menu bar is context sensitive; it changes according to the page you are on. (With wide menus on small screens, items may wrap to the next row.)
Item | Description |
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Interval | Data interval. |
Region | Filter by region. |
Environment | Filter by environment. |
Cluster | Filter by cluster. |
Replication Set | Filter by replication set. |
Node Name | Filter by node name. |
Service Name | Filter by service name. |
PMM Annotations | View annotations. |
Shortcut menu¶
This menu contains shortcuts to other dashboards. The list changes according to the page you’re on.
This menu will be removed in future releases. Its function will be replaced by the PMM Dashboards main menu entry.
Item | Description |
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Home | Home dashboard. |
Query Analytics | Query Analytics. |
Compare | Nodes compare. |
(Service Type) | Service type menu (see Services menu]). |
HA | HA dashboards. |
Services | Services menu. |
PMM | PMM menu. |
Tip
The Compare menu links to the Instances Overview dashboard for the current service type.
Services menu¶
The Services menu choice determines the Service Type menu.
Menu | Item | Service type menu | Description |
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Services | |||
MongoDB Instances Overview | MongoDB | MongoDB dashboards. | |
MySQL Instances Overview | MySQL | MySQL dashboards. | |
Nodes Overview | OS | OS dashboards. | |
PostgreSQL Instances Overview | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL dashboards. |
PMM menu¶
This item lists shortcuts to utility pages.
Menu | Item |
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PMM | |
PMM Add Instance | |
PMM Database Checks | |
PMM Inventory | |
PMM Settings |