Creating a dashboard with CDF data

Use the Cognite Data Source for Grafana to build dashboards on data in Cognite Data Fusion (CDF).

Before you begin

Sign in to your Grafana instance, create a dashboard, and add a visualization. In the Data source field, select your Cognite Data Source.

Choose a query tab

Use the query tabs below the chart area to select a data source for your panel.

Tab	Use it to
Time series	Search and select a time series and plot its data points. See Plotting time series with the Time series tab.
GraphQL	Run a GraphQL query against a data model to show the instances it returns, or to select the time series to plot. See Querying data models with GraphQL in Grafana.
Synthetic time series	Compute new time series from expressions. See Computing synthetic time series in Grafana.
Activities	Show the activities related to assets, equipment, or time series. See Showing activities in Grafana.
Records	List or aggregate records. See Querying records in Grafana.

Set the time range

The panel shows the data in the dashboard time range. Use the time picker above the chart to show the period you’re interested in.

Save the dashboard

Give the panel a title and select Save dashboard.

The panel shows data from CDF and updates when you change the time range.

To let users narrow down what a visualization shows, for example, which equipment’s time series to plot, add dashboard variables.