Grafana

Setup

This guide will walk you through setting up Grafana to use Dash0 as a Prometheus-compatible data source, allowing you to create custom dashboards with your telemetry data.

Step 1: Adding Dash0 as a Data Source

1. Log in to your Grafana instance
2. Navigate to Connections > Data Sources
3. Click Add new data source
4. Select Prometheus as the data source type
5. Set the Prometheus server URL to {{endpoint_api_prometheus}}
6. In the Authentication section, keep No Authentication
7. In the HTTP headers section…
   • Add an Authorization header with the value Bearer {{token}}
   • Add a Dash0-Dataset header with the value {{dataset}}
8. Click Save & Test to verify the connection

Step 2: Using PromQL with Dash0

Dash0's Prometheus-compatible API supports all the PromQL queries you are used to from Dash0. Here are some examples to get you started (find more in the Dash0 documentation):