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# Dashboards

Learn how to build custom dashboards using groundcover

groundcover’s dashboards are designed to personalize your data visualization and maximize the value of your existing data. Dashboards are perfect for creating investigation flows for critical monitors, displaying the data you care about in a way that suits you and your team, and crafting insights from the data on groundcover.

Easily create a new Dashboard [using our guide](/~/revisions/1mY0CQn12Klyi0QiItHv/use-groundcover/dashboards-and-alerts/create-a-dashboard.md).

<figure><img src="https://2771001740-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FUHgqKYgCiRKdOpWQdi52%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-f7fff123589259ee2cc1d4037ca604240954bd6e%2FDashboard%20screenshot.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Example of a groundcover Dashboard</p></figcaption></figure>

#### **Key Features**

* **Multi-Mode Query Bar**: The Query Bar is central to dashboards and supports multiple modes fully integrated with native pages and Monitors. Currently, the modes include Metrics, Infra Metrics, Logs, and Traces. Learn more in the [Query Builder section](/~/revisions/1mY0CQn12Klyi0QiItHv/use-groundcover/querying-your-groundcover-data/explore-and-monitors-query-builder.md).
* **Variables**: Built-in variables allow you to filter data quickly based on a predefined list crafted by groundcover.
* **Widget Types**: Two widget types are currently supported:
  * Chart Widget: Displays data visually.
  * Textual Widget: Adds context to your dashboards.
* **Display Types**: Five display types are supported for data visualization:
  * Time Series, Table, Stat, Top List, and Pie. Read more in the[ Widget Types section.](#widget-types)


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