Grafana supports automatic rendering of panels as PNG images. This allows Grafana to automatically generate images of your panels to include in alert notifications, [PDF export]({{< relref "../../dashboards/create-reports#export-dashboard-as-pdf" >}}), and [Reporting]({{< relref "../../dashboards/create-reports" >}}). PDF Export and Reporting are available only in [Grafana Enterprise]({{< relref "../../introduction/grafana-enterprise" >}}) and [Grafana Cloud](/docs/grafana-cloud/).
> **Note:** Image rendering of dashboards is not supported at this time.
While an image is being rendered, the PNG image is temporarily written to the file system. When the image is rendered, the PNG image is temporarily written to the `png` folder in the Grafana `data` folder.
A background job runs every 10 minutes and removes temporary images. You can configure how long an image should be stored before being removed by configuring the [temp_data_lifetime]({{< relref "../configure-grafana#temp_data_lifetime" >}}) setting.