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Kristin Knapp   ·   16 May 2025   ·   6 min read

Dashboards and detergent: How two students monitor laundry machines in a college dorm with Grafana

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How to work with multiple data sources in Grafana dashboards: best practices to get started

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Grafana variables: what they are and how they create dynamic dashboards

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Grafana variables: what they are and how they create dynamic dashboards

Variables in Grafana allow you to filter and search for the data you care about most, without having to edit queries or rebuild dashboards.

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How to visualize SurrealDB data with Grafana

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