Migrate Dashboards from LGTM Stack
Grafana dashboards need to be recreated in SigNoz due to differences in the dashboard JSON schemas between the platforms.
Using Dashboard Templates
SigNoz provides several pre-built dashboard templates:
- Find the dashboard you want to migrate in SigNoz Dashboard Templates repository
- Navigate to Dashboards in SigNoz
- Click + New Dashboard
- Click Import JSON
- Either paste or upload the dashboard JSON file
Creating Custom Dashboards
In case there is no existing dashboard template that you can use, you can create a custom dashboard in SigNoz. Please follow Manage Dashboards in SigNoz documentation for more details.
Requesting Custom Dashboards
You can also request SigNoz to help you with creating custom dashboards. To request a custom dashboard, please create a GitHub issue providing details about the dashboard you want to create.
Dashboard Features
SigNoz supports essential dashboard features including:
- Variables: Create template variables for dynamic dashboards
- Panel Types: Various visualization options (time series, bar charts, tables, etc.)
- Query Builder: Construct queries visually or using PromQL
Panel Types
SigNoz supports most of the common panel types supported by Grafana:
| Panel Type | Grafana | SigNoz | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time Series | ✓ | ✓ | Both platforms support time series visualization with thresholds and unit configuration |
| Bar Chart | ✓ | ✓ | Both support categorical data visualization |
| Pie Chart | ✓ | ✓ | Both support proportional data visualization |
| Table | ✓ | ✓ | Both support tabular data display |
| Histogram | ✓ | ✓ | Both support distribution visualization |
| Value/Stat | ✓ | ✓ | Single value display with thresholds |
| Gauge | ✓ | - | Similar functionality available via Value panels with thresholds |
| Node Graph | ✓ | - | Service Map provides similar functionality for service dependencies |
| Logs | ✓ | ✓ | Dedicated List panel type for logs visualization |
| Traces | ✓ | ✓ | Advanced trace visualization through APM features |
| Flame Graph | ✓ | ✓ | Flame graphs are available in APM |
| State Timeline | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| Status History | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| Candlestick | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| XY Chart | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| Geomap | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| Canvas | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
| News | ✓ | - | Not currently supported |
SigNoz does not currently support plugins, so in case you are using any plugins that provide additional panel types in your Grafana, you will need to find an alternative or recreate the same functionality using SigNoz's features.
Please refer to Panel Types documentation for more details on the panel types supported by SigNoz.
