How to set a Grafana home dashboard

Setting a Grafana home dashboard makes a chosen dashboard open when users return to Home after sign-in. It helps place shared operating panels in front of an organization instead of the generic Grafana start page.

Grafana stores home dashboard preferences at several layers. The organization default applies unless a team or personal preference overrides it, and the UI picker shows dashboards that the current user has starred.

Organization administrators can save the default from Administration → General → Default preferences. The saved preference can also be checked through the organization preferences API, which returns the selected dashboard UID.

1. Open the dashboard that should become the organization home dashboard.
2. Click the star next to the dashboard title if it is not already starred.

   Only starred dashboards appear in the Home Dashboard picker.

3. Open Administration → General.
4. Click Default preferences.
5. Select the starred dashboard from the Home Dashboard field.
6. Click Save preferences.
7. Click Save in the confirmation dialog.

   This changes the organization default for users who do not have a team or personal home dashboard preference.

8. Click Home to confirm the selected dashboard opens.
9. Check the saved organization preference from an authenticated API client.

   $ curl --header "Authorization: Bearer glsa_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" https://grafana.example.com/api/org/preferences
   {"homeDashboardUID":"ops-home"}