# Panels and visualizations in Grafana version 12 **** This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 12.x**. For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x, see [Working in Grafana version 10](using-grafana-v10.md). For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see [Working in Grafana version 9](using-grafana-v9.md). For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see [Working in Grafana version 8](using-grafana-v8.md). The *panel* is the basic visualization building block in Grafana. Each panel has a query editor specific to the data source selected in the panel. The query editor allows you to build a query that returns the data you want to visualize. There are a wide variety of styling and formatting options for each panel. Panels can be dragged, dropped, and resized to rearrange them on the dashboard. Before you add a panel, ensure that you have configured a data source. Additional panel types might be available by installing additional [plugins](grafana-plugins.md) to your workspace. For details about using specific data sources, see [Connect to data sources](AMG-data-sources.md). You can add interactive actions to visualizations that trigger API calls or navigate to URLs, with support for custom variables and one-click data links. **Topics** + [Panel editor overview](v12-panels-editor-overview.md) + [The panel inspect view](v12-panels-panel-inspector.md) + [Query and transform data](v12-panels-query-xform.md) + [Configure panel options](v12-panels-configure-panel-options.md) + [Configure standard options](v12-panels-configure-standard-options.md) + [Configure a legend](v12-panels-configure-legend.md) + [Configure data links](v12-panels-configure-data-links.md) + [Configure value mappings](v12-panels-configure-value-mappings.md) + [Configure thresholds](v12-panels-configure-thresholds.md) + [Configure field overrides](v12-panels-configure-overrides.md) + [Visualizations available in Grafana version 12](v12-panels-viz.md)