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description: Use the command palette to search all of Grafana and initiate key actions
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  - search
  - dashboards
  - alerts
  - preferences
  - sift
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  products:
    - cloud
    - enterprise
    - oss
menutitle: Search
title: Search
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# Grafana search

Use the command palette to search all of Grafana and to initiate key actions from any page in the application.

## Command palette

The command palette allows you to:

- Search for and open dashboards and folders
- Create dashboards and alert rules
- Locate pages within Grafana
- Change the theme to dark or light
- Run Sift investigations

![Command Palette screenshot](/media/docs/grafana/CommandPalette_doc_1.png)

To open the command palette, press `cmd+K` in macOS or `ctrl+k` in Linux/Windows. You can also click on the input located in the navigation bar.

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To go to the previous step, press `backspace` with the command palette input empty.
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