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aliases:
- dashboards/configure-panels-visualizations/
- features/panels/panels/
- panels/
keywords:
- grafana
- configure
- panels
- visualizations
labels:
products:
- cloud
- enterprise
- oss
menuTitle: Panels and visualizations
title: Panels and visualizations
description: Learn about and configure panels and visualizations
weight: 80
refs:
data-sources:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/datasources/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/datasources/
data-source-management:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/
---
# Panels and visualizations
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.
- For details about using data sources, refer to [Data sources](ref:data-sources).
- For more information about managing data sources as an administrator, refer to [Data source management](ref:data-source-management).
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[Data source management](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/) is only available in [Grafana Enterprise](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/introduction/grafana-enterprise/) and [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/).
{{% /admonition %}}
This section includes the following sub topics:
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