By now, you've probably created at least a handful of dashboards, if only to work through the examples in this book. Ideally, you're well on your way to creating many more, along with other members of your team, unit, and even your entire company. What you'll quickly find – if you haven't already – is that you've ended up with a number of dashboards in various stages of development and potentially connecting to a number of data sources, all of them lying around in the dashboard display.
Conceptually, Grafana provides four classification schemes aimed at helping you identify dashboards to satisfy common organizational needs. The first is what I call a significance-based scheme, which identifies the most important dashboard through a starred or favorited designation. The second is a structure-based scheme, which places dashboards into an arbitrary hierarchical structure of folders. The third scheme is...