grafana/docs/sources/dashboards/build-dashboards/_index.md

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menuTitle: Build dashboards
title: Build dashboards
description: Build dashboards including managing settings, links, and version history
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# Build dashboards

This section includes the following topics:

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## Dynamic dashboards

You can create more interactive and dynamic dashboards by adding and using [variables](ref:variables). Instead of hard-coding things like server, application, and sensor names in your metric queries, you can use variables in their place. Read more about variables [here](ref:variables).