Dashboards

Learn how to build custom dashboards using groundcover

Dashboards let you build persistent, shareable views over your observability data. Use them for on-call playbooks, service health boards, incident investigation layouts, and any view you want to revisit without rebuilding queries in Explore.

Dashboards are built from widgets (charts, tables, stats, text, and grouped sections), filtered with variables, and scoped to a time range. Changes are saved per dashboard and can be shared with your team.

Easily create a new Dashboard using our guide.

You can also install a ready-made dashboard from the Dashboard Catalog, a library of pre-built dashboards that groundcover manages and keeps current automatically.

Find your frequently used dashboards

Mark dashboards as favorites to filter the Dashboards list to your selection, or pin them to the sidebar for direct access. For example, pin the service health dashboard you check throughout an on-call shift, and favorite the other dashboards for services you own.

Favorites and pins are personal: they don't affect other users or change the dashboard's content. You can use either or both on a dashboard, including managed dashboards, even with read-only access. Pinning a dashboard does not automatically add it to your favorites.

Add a dashboard to favorites

1. Open a dashboard and click the star beside its name. You can also select Add to favorites from its Actions menu or from the dashboard's menu in the Dashboards list.

2. Return to the Dashboards page and enable Favorites only to show your favorite dashboards.

Turn off Favorites only to return to the full list with your other filters still applied.

Remove a dashboard from favorites

Open the dashboard and click the filled star beside its name, or select Actions → Remove from favorites. You can also select Remove from favorites from the dashboard's menu in the Dashboards list.

Removing a favorite does not delete the dashboard or remove its sidebar pin.

Pin a dashboard to the sidebar

1. Open a dashboard and select Actions → Pin to sidebar. You can also select Pin to sidebar from the dashboard's menu in the Dashboards list.

2. The dashboard appears under Pinned in the left sidebar. Click its name to open it directly.

Pinned dashboards in the left sidebar.

Unpin a dashboard from the sidebar

1. Hover over the dashboard under Pinned in the left sidebar and open its menu.

2. Select Remove from sidebar.

You can also open the dashboard and select Actions → Remove from sidebar, or select Remove from sidebar from its menu in the Dashboards list. Removing a pin does not delete the dashboard or remove it from your favorites.

Reorder pinned dashboards

1. Hover over a dashboard under Pinned in the left sidebar to reveal its drag handle.

2. Drag the handle to move the dashboard above or below another pinned dashboard.

The new order applies only to your sidebar.