# Working in Grafana version 8
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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).

When you create your Grafana workspace, you have the option of which version of Grafana to use. The following topics describe using a Grafana workspace that uses version 8 of Grafana.

**Topics**
+ [Panels](Grafana-panels.md)
+ [Dashboards](dashboard-overview.md)
+ [Explore](explore.md)
+ [Linking](linking-in-Amazon-Managed-Service-for-Grafana.md)
+ [Templates and variables](templates-and-variables.md)
+ [Grafana alerting](alerts-overview.md)