Best practices for managing dashboards

Best practices to follow

Copying dashboards with no significant changes is not a good idea.
- You miss out on updates to the original dashboard, such as documentation changes, bug fixes, or additions to metrics.
When you must copy a dashboard, clearly rename it and do not copy the dashboard tags. Tags are important metadata for dashboards that are used during search. Copying tags can result in false matches.
Maintain a dashboard of dashboards or cross-reference dashboards. This can be done in several ways:
- Create dashboard links, panel, or data links. Links can go to other dashboards or to external systems. For more information, refer to Linking.
- Add a . You can then customize what you see by doing tag or folder searches.