Adding a dashboard to Grafana

[Paul Wright]

//taking cover already as I'm about to ask people to name things

You don't add a table to Postgres, you add a table to a database,

You don't Firefox a web site.

and in general, you don't add <item> to <product>, you add <item> to
<function or component>

so, I don't like the phrase 'adding a dashboard to Grafana'

I suppose we might 'add a dashboard to the Grafana instance', but that
seems wordy,

And everyone is busy, so I'm going to say either:

a) add a dashboard to the Grafana instance

b) add a dashboard to <AeroGear Reports>

Note: I've spoken to a few ppl about this, and they're looking at me
funny, but I'd like to point out that this is what I'm basing my view on
the fact that a dashboard is not supposed to be a mere visualization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business)

Paul
(waiting for all the counter examples)
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Mobile Docs (github: finp)

[David Martin]

From the docs here http://docs.grafana.org/guides/getting_started/#dashboards-panels-rows-the-building-blocks-of-grafana it talks about creating a dashboard, and that dashboards are at the core of Grafana.

So, 'creating a dashboard in Grafana'?

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[Jose Miguel Gallas Olmedo]

"Adding a Grafana dashboard [to the metrics service]"?

JOSE MIGUEL GALLAS OLMEDO

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[Paul Wright]

Hi,

Thanks for suggestions, I think 'Creating a dashboard in Grafana' is the right way to go.

Let me explain my motivation here, I was reading the doc as an idiot (which i found worryingly easy yesterday). If I don't know what Grafana is, then mention of 'Grafana dashboards' or 'adding dashboards to Grafana' prompts a question 'what is Grafana?'.

I think we want to mention Grafana, for many reasons, but I hope that 'Creating a dashboard in Grafana' prompts the question 'where is Grafana?' and that users unfamiliar with the name will intuit it as an App/Location instead of a new piece in a poorly fitting jigsaw.

(Jose, I like your addition of context, mentioning the metrics service, but I'm hoping that will be obvious to the user by location of the Grafana topics and the introductory text.)

Paul