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title: Graphing Guides
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  Guides for dashboard configuration, visualization techniques, widget
  customization, and API usage.
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# Graphing Guides

- [Best practices for maintaining relevant dashboards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/maintain-relevant-dashboards.md)
- [Powerpacks best practices](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/powerpacks-best-practices.md)
- [Using Terraform to restrict the editing of a dashboard](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/how-to-use-terraform-to-restrict-dashboards.md)
- [Dashboards API: Migrate from is_read_only by December 13, 2024](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/is-read-only-deprecation.md)
- [Version History](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/version_history.md)

- [Query to the Graph](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/query-to-the-graph.md)
- [Graphing with JSON](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/graphing_json.md)
- [Graphing percentiles in Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/how-to-graph-percentiles-in-datadog.md)
- [Selecting the right colors for your graphs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/widget_colors.md)
- [Understanding Duplicate Colors in the Consistent Palette](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/consistent_color_palette.md)
- [Unit override](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/unit-override.md)
- [Custom time frames](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/custom_time_frames.md)
- [Quick Graphs](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/quick-graphs.md)

- [Getting started with the Wildcard Widget](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/getting_started_with_wildcard_widget.md)
- [Using Vega-Lite with Wildcard Widgets in Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/using_vega_lite_in_wildcard_widgets.md)
- [Wildcard Widget Examples](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/wildcard_examples.md)
- [Datadog Clipboard](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/datadog_clipboard.md)
- [Context Links](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/context-links.md)
- [Embeddable graphs with template variables](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/embeddable-graphs-with-template-variables.md)
- [Why am I unable to iFrame certain HTTPS URLs?](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/unable-to-iframe.md)
- [Using TV mode for Dashboards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/tv_mode.md)

- [Compatible semantic tags](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/compatible_semantic_tags.md)
- [Scope metric-based SLO queries](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/slo_graph_query.md)

- [Graph historical SLO data on Dashboards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/slo_data_source.md)
- [Configuring an APM stats graph](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/apm-stats-graph.md)

- [How does weighted() work?](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/how-weighted-works.md)
- [Understanding rollup function and cardinality in visualizations](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/rollup-cardinality-visualizations.md)

- [Screenboard API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/screenboard-api-doc.md)
- [Timeboard API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/timeboard-api-doc.md)
- [Dashboard Lists API (v1)](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/guide/dashboard-lists-api-v1-doc.md)