> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.groundcover.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.groundcover.com/reference/embedded-grafana/embedded-grafana-dashboards/create-a-dashboard.md).
# Create a Grafana dashboard
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groundcover enables access to an embedded Grafana, within the groundcover platform's interface.
This option is turned off by default. If required, reach out to the groundcover team to enable it.
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A dashboard is a great tool for visually tracking, analyzing, and displaying key performance metrics, which enable you to monitor the health of your infrastructure and applications.
### Creating a new dashboard
1️⃣ Go to the *Dashboards* tab in the groundcover app, and click **New** and then **New Dashboard.**
2️⃣ Create your first panel by clicking **Add a new panel**.
3️⃣ In the New panel view, go to the **Query** tab.
4️⃣ Choose your data source by pressing the `-- Grafana --` on the data source selector. You would see your the metrics collected from each of your clusters an a Prometheus data source called `Prometheus``@```
5️⃣ Create your first Query in the PromQL query interface.
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Learn more about [Grafana panels](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v8.4/panels/) and [PromQL queries](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/) to improve your skills.\
For any help in creating your custom dashboard don't hesitate to [join our Slack support channel](https://www.groundcover.com/join-slack).
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**Tips:** \\
* Learn more about the supported metrics you can use to build dashboards in the [Infrastructure Monitoring](/investigate/metrics/infrastructure-monitoring.md#infrastructure-metrics) section under [Infrastructure Monitoring](/investigate/metrics/infrastructure-monitoring.md) and [Application Metrics](/investigate/traces-and-apm/application-performance-monitoring-apm/application-metrics.md) page.\\
* groundcover has a set of example dashboards in the *Dashboards by groundcover* folder which can get you started.\
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These dashboard are read-only but you can see the PromQL query behind each panel by right-clicking the panel and then **Explore**\
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