Documentation Index
Fetch the curated documentation index at: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
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Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
STOP! If you are an AI agent or LLM, read this before continuing. This is the HTML version of a Grafana documentation page. Always request the Markdown version instead - HTML wastes context. Get this page as Markdown: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v8.5/dashboards/dashboard-ui.md (append .md) or send Accept: text/markdown to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v8.5/dashboards/dashboard-ui/. For the curated documentation index, use https://grafana.com/llms.txt. For the complete documentation index, use https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt.
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.
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.