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What other components exist in Grafana besides the dashboard and data source?

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  • Panels: Visual components on the dashboard that display data from data sources in various formats (charts, tables, indicators, etc.).
  • Annotations: Markers on charts that highlight significant events (deployment, failure, etc.).
  • Alerting: A mechanism to create rules for sending notifications (e.g., via email, Slack) based on data from sources under certain conditions.
  • Organizations: Logical separation of users, dashboards, and data sources to ensure isolation.
  • Users & Teams: Management of access to dashboards and data sources.
  • Roles: Predefined or customizable sets of permissions for users and teams.
  • Plugins: Extensions that add new data sources, panels, or applications.
  • Snapshots: A fixed copy of a dashboard with data at a specific point in time.
  • Panel Libraries: The ability to reuse panels across dashboards.
  • Variables: Dynamic values that make dashboards more interactive and flexible.
  • API: REST API for programmatic interaction with Grafana.
# Example curl request to Grafana API to get a list of dashboards
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_api_token>" http://grafana.example.com/api/search?type=dash-db