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# About Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing
rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through
a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/),
[InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org) and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). But supports other data sources via plugins.
Grafana is a leading open source applications for visualizing large-scale measurement data.
It is most commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and metric analytics. But Grafana
has an open architecture and design that enables it to be used in other domains as well, like home automation,
weather and industrial sensors analytics.
It provides a powerful and elegant way to create, share, and explore data and dashboards from your disparate metric databases, either with your team or the world.
## Support
Grafana is most commonly used for Internet infrastructure and application analytics, but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.
If you have any trouble with Grafana, either the install or some feature you do not understand or you suspect isn't working
correctly there are a number of sources where you can get help.
Grafana features pluggable panels and data sources allowing easy extensibility. There is currently rich support for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org) and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). There is also experimental support for KairosDB, and SQL is on the roadmap. Grafana has a variety of panels, including a fully featured graph panel with rich visualization options.
-[Troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting)
-\#grafana IRC channel on freenode
- Search closed and open [issues on github](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues)
Version 2.0 was released in April 2015: Grafana now ships with its own backend server that brings [many changes and features](../guides/whats-new-in-v2/).
Do not hesitate to open a new issue with a question, bug report or an idea for improvement.
## Community Resources, Feedback, and Support
User feedback and involvement is paramount to making a product better so please take the time and create an issue.
Thousands of organizations large and small rely on Grafana, and we have a vibrant and active community that constantly inspires us.
## Paid support
If you wish to get paid support please [contact us](mailto:contact@grafana.org).
Please don't hesitate to [open a new issue on Github](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues) with your suggestions, ideas, and bug reports.
## License
Most of the new features and improvements that go into Grafana come from our users. We greatly value your feedback and suggestions; we consider them paramount to making the product better!
Grafana is licensed under Apache 2.0. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.mdhttps://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
for full license text.
If you have any trouble with Grafana, whether you can't get it set up or you just want clarification on a feature, there are a number of ways to get help:
-[Troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting)
-\#grafana IRC channel on the freenode network (chat.freenode.net)
- Search closed and open [issues on GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues)
[raintank](http://www.raintank.io), the company behind Grafana, will be launching a SaaS Grafana-based platform later this year that will also include commercial support for all your existing Grafana installations. Please sign up for [early access at raintank](http://www.raintank.io) for more information.
## License
By utilizing this software, you agree to the terms of the included license. Grafana is licensed under the Apache 2.0 agreement. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.mdhttps://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for the full license terms.
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# Playlist Guide
## About the Playlist
*TODO*
The Playlist is a special type of Dashboard that rotates through a particular list of two or more Dashboards. They can be a great way to build situational awareness or just show off your metrics to your team or visitors. Since Dashboards in Grafana automatically scale to any resolution they're perfect for big screens!
## Configuring the Playlist
The Playlist can be accessed from the main Dashboard picker. Click the 'Playlist' button at the bottom of the picker to access the Playlist functionality.
Since the Playlist is basically a list of Dashboards, ensure that all the Dashboards you want to appear in your Playlist are added here. You can search Dashboards by name (or use a regular expression).
You can search Dashboards by name (or use a regular expression), and add them to your Playlist. By default, your starred dashboards will appear as candidates for the Playlist.
Be sure to click the right arrow appearing next to the Dashboard name to add it to the Playlist.
You can configure a time interval for Grafana to wait on a particular Dashboard before advancing to the next one on the Playlist.
## Starting and controlling the Playlist
To start the Playlist, click the green "Start" button
Playlists can also be manually controlled utilizing the Playlist controls at the top of screen when in Playlist mode.
Click the stop button to stop the Playlist, and exit to the current Dashboard.
Click the next button to advance to the next Dashboard in the Playlist.
Click the back button to rewind to the previous Dashboard in the Playlist.
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# Time range controls
Grafana provides numerous ways to manage the time ranges of the data being visualized, both at the Dashboard-level and the Panel-level.
# Dashboard time picker
In the menu you have the time range dropdown (between to Zoom out and refresh links).
In this dropdown you have relative time options, auto refresh options and custom time options.
In the top right, you have the master Dashboard time picker (it's inbetween the 'Zoom out' and the 'Refresh' links).
From this dropdown you can:
1. Specify an exact time range (eg. "October 13 12:01 to October 14 12:05)
2. Choose a relative time (eg. "Last 15 minutes","Last 1 week")
3. Configure auto-refresh options
All of this applies to all Panels in the Dashboard (except those with Panel Time Overrides enabled)
## Customize relative time and auto auto-refresh options
## Custom time
It's possible to customize the options displayed for relative time and the auto-refresh options.
To customize the relative and auto refresh options open the dashboard settings and click the Timepicker tab.
In this tab you can specify the relative and auto refresh intervals. The Timepicker tab settings are saved
on per dashboard basis.
From Dashboard setttings, click the Timepicker tab. From here you can specify the relative and auto refresh intervals. The Timepicker tab settings are saved on a per Dashboard basis.
## Time picker options
## Panel time override
In dashboard settings, `Time Picker` tab you can add or remove the relative time intervals and refresh intervals
that should be available in the time picker dropdown.
In Grafana 2.0, it's now possible for individual Panels to override the Dashboard time picker. Please check out the [whats new in 2.0 guide](../guides/whats-new-in-v2/) for further information
