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Text
Text visualizations enable you to directly include text or HTML in your dashboards. This can be used to add contextual information and descriptions or embed complex HTML.
For example, if you want to display important links to your dashboard, you can use a text visualization to add these links:
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Use a text visualization when you need to:
- Add important links or useful annotations.
- Provide instructions or guidance on how to interpret different panels, configure settings, or take specific actions based on the displayed data.
- Announce any scheduled maintenance or downtime that might impact your dashboards.
Panel options
In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.
Text options
Use the following options to refine your text visualization.
Mode
Mode determines how embedded content appears.
Note
To allow embedding of iframes and other websites, you need setallow_embedding = true
in your Grafanaconfig.ini
or environment variables (depending on your employment).
Markdown
This option formats the content as markdown.
HTML
This setting renders the content as sanitized HTML. If you require more direct control over the output, you can set the disable_sanitize_html flag which enables you to directly enter HTML.
Code
This setting renders content inside a read-only code editor. Select an appropriate language to apply syntax highlighting to the embedded text.
Variables
Variables in the content will be expanded for display.