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Working with Grafana dashboard UI
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The dashboard UI has the following sections to allow you to customize the presentation of data.

- Zoom out time range (1)
- Time picker dropdown (2). Access relative time range options, auto refresh options and set custom absolute time ranges.
- Manual refresh option (3) Fetch new data.
- Dashboard panel (4) Click the panel title to edit panels.
- Graph legend (5) Change series colors, y-axis and series visibility directly from the legend.
For more details, see Dashboard header and Dashboard rows.