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* Query and dashboards

# Query and dashboards

Look at the data before you alert on it: the metrics and log explorers, built-in views, and dashboards you can share or embed.

## [Metrics explorer](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/metric-explorer.md)

[Ad-hoc PromQL against any registered source, with the same query editor rules use.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/metric-explorer.md)

## [Built-in metric views](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/built-in-views.md)

[Pre-built views for hosts, containers and common middleware, and how to add your own.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/built-in-views.md)

## [Object quick view](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/object-view.md)

[From a host in the target list to its key metrics in one click.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/object-view.md)

## [Log explorer and index patterns](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/log-explorer.md)

[Search ElasticSearch, Loki and VictoriaLogs sources, define index patterns, and pivot from a log line to a rule.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/log-explorer.md)

## [Recording rules](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/recording-rules.md)

[Precompute expensive expressions on a schedule and alert on the result instead.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/recording-rules.md)

## [Build a dashboard](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/dashboards.md)

[A dashboard belongs to a business group; build it from an integration template or from scratch with twelve panel types, and export it whole to hand to someone else.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/dashboards.md)

## [Variables and filters](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/variables.md)

[Dashboard variables add dropdowns at the top of a board, populated from label values and chained to each other; pick a host or a cluster and every chart switches.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/variables.md)

## [Anonymous time-limited sharing](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/sharing.md)

[Share one dashboard through a link that expires, without creating an account for the viewer.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/sharing.md)

## [Share, embed and integrate external systems](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/embedding.md)

[Embed Nightingale into an existing portal, hide menus selectively, and pass identity through.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/embedding.md)

## [Use Grafana with Nightingale](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/grafana.md)

[Keep Grafana for visualisation: point it at the same stores, and hand alerting to Nightingale.](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/grafana.md)

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[Verify incoming data](https://n9e.github.io/docs/data/integrations/verify.md)

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[Metrics explorer](https://n9e.github.io/docs/query/metric-explorer.md)

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