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Panels and visualizations
The panel is the basic visualization building block in Grafana. Each panel has a query editor specific to the data source selected in the panel. The query editor allows you to build a query that returns the data you want to visualize.
There are a wide variety of styling and formatting options for each panel. Panels can be dragged, dropped, and resized to rearrange them on the dashboard.
Before you add a panel, ensure that you have configured a data source.
For details about using data sources, refer to Data sources.
For more information about managing data sources as an administrator, refer to Data source management.
Note
Data source management is only available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud.
This section includes the following sub topics: