

# Panels
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 8.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x, see [Working in Grafana version 10](using-grafana-v10.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see [Working in Grafana version 9](using-grafana-v9.md).

The panel is the basic visualization building block in a Grafana server. A panel is a visual representation of one or more queries except a few special-use panels. The queries display data over time. This can range from temperature fluctuations to current server status to a list of logs or alerts.

Each panel has a query editor specific to the data source selected in the panel. The query editor allows you to extract a visualization to display on the panel.



To display data, you must have at least one data source added to your workspace. For more information about data sources, see [Connect to data sources](AMG-data-sources.md).

There are a wide variety of styling and formatting options for each panel. Panels can be dragged, rearranged, and resized.

**Topics**
+ [Adding a panel](add-a-panel-to-a-dashboard.md)
+ [Deleting a panel](Deleting-a-panel.md)
+ [Queries](panel-queries.md)
+ [Recorded queries](recorded-queries.md)
+ [Transformations](panel-transformations.md)
+ [Field options and overrides](field-options-overrides.md)
+ [Panel editor](AMG-panel-editor.md)
+ [Library panels](AMG-library-panel.md)
+ [Visualizations](AMG-visualizations.md)