UI components

Key

1. Main menu (also Grafana menu, side menu)
2. Navigation bar
3. View controls
4. View selectors (dynamic contents)
5. 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
	Home	Link to home dashboard.
	Search	Search dashboards by name.
	Starred	Mark your favorite dashboards.
	Dashboards	Create dashboards or folders, manage dashboards, import dashboards, create playlists, manage snapshots.
	Operating System (OS)	Operating System dashboard
	MySQL	MySQL dashboard
	MongoDB	MongoDB dashboard
	PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL dashboard
	ProxySQL	ProxySQL dashboard
	HAproxy	HAproxy dashboard
	Query Analytics (QAN)	Query Analytics
	Explore	Run queries with PromQL.
	Percona Alerting	Alerting, Create new alerts and manage your alert rules and alert templates.
	Configuration
	Entitlements	This tab is displayed after connecting PMM to Percona Portal, and shows all your Percona Platform account information.
	Support Tickets	Shows the list of tickets opened across your organization. This tab is only available after you connect PMM to Percona Platform.
	Environment Overview	This tab is displayed after connecting PMM to Percona Portal. Shows the name and email of the Customer Success Manager assigned to your organization, who can help with any PMM queries. This tab will soon be populated with more useful information about your PMM environment.
	Server Admin
	Backup Management	Backup management and storage location configuration.
	PMM Advisor Checks	Run health assessment checks against your connected databases and check any failed 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
(Profile icon)	User menu
	Help

Navigation bar

Item (left)	Description
	(Display only.)
(Name) /	(Optional) Folder name.
(Name)	Dashboard name.
	Mark as favorite.
	Share dashboard.

View controls

Item (right)	Description
	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
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
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
Services
	MongoDB Instances Overview	MongoDB	MongoDB dashboards.
	MySQL Instances Overview	MySQL	MySQL dashboards.
	Nodes Overview	OS	OS dashboards.
	PostgreSQL Instances Overview	PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL dashboards.

Note

• You can easily access all dashboards for monitored services from the Main menu via Other Dashboards in the Services sub menu.
• Only the services being monitored by PMM will appear on the main menu.

PMM menu

This item lists shortcuts to utility pages.

Menu	Item
PMM
	PMM Add Instance
	PMM Database Checks
	PMM Inventory
	PMM Settings

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Last update: 2023-03-21