Let's take a look at the more common sidebar menu buttons. Unless you are running Grafana in a special display mode, this menu bar will appear alongside your dashboard. Depending on the context, it may be accompanied by additional buttons, but we will look at the basic set.
The dashboards button
At the top of the dashboard is the dashboards button:
It displays the name of the current dashboard, and clicking on it takes you to the same dashboard search page as the search button described in the following section.
The dashboard panels
Below the dashboards button are the dashboard panels. Besides graphical data, panels can convey a wide variety of information, including textual and numerical data, spreadsheet-like tables, and lists of dashboards. The current Home dashboard serves as a landing page for the Grafana application by default, but you can always change the default to...