Assessing dashboard usage

Usage insights enable you to have a better understanding of how your Grafana instance is used.

The usage insights feature collects a number of aggregated data and stores them in the database.

The aggregated data provides you access to several features, including dashboard and data source insights, presence indicator, sorting dashboards by using insights data, and visualizing usage insight data in a dashboard.

This feature also generates detailed logs that can be exported to Loki.

Dashboard and data source insights

For every dashboard and data source, you can access usage information.

Dashboard insights

To see dashboard usage information, click Dashboard insights in the top bar.

Dashboard insights show the following information.

Data source insights

Data source insights provide information about how a data source has been used in the past 30 days, such as:

To find data source insights:

Presence indicator

When you sign in and look at a dashboard, you can know who is looking at the same dashboard as you are through a presence indicator, which displays avatars of users who have recently interacted with the dashboard. The default timeframe is 10 minutes. To see the user’s name, hover over the user’s avatar. The avatars come from Gravatar based on the user’s email.

When there are more active users on a dashboard than can fit within the presence indicator, click the +X icon. Doing this will open dashboard insights, which contain more details about recent user activity.

Sorting dashboards by using insights data

In the search view, you can use insights data to help you find most-used, broken, and unused dashboards.