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Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
Developers
This section of the documentation contains pages with resources for Grafana developers:
- Grafana Contribution Guide - learn how you can contribute your skills to make Grafana even better.
- How to build a plugin
- Grafana Tutorials - step-by-step guides that help you make the most of Grafana
- Grafana Community Forums - get technical support for open source Grafana, Loki, and Tempo.
- Grafana design system - library of reusable Grafana components and guidelines that help you with contribution and plugin development