Historically, Prometheus maintained its own tool to create dashboards, called PromDash. Over time, since Grafana improved its native support for Prometheus as a data source, the community began gravitating toward using Grafana as its primary visualization solution—so much so that PromDash was deprecated by the people who maintained Prometheus in favor of Grafana.

Even though Grafana is the recommended visualization solution for most people, Prometheus also ships with an internal dashboarding feature called console templates. These console templates are written in raw HTML/CSS/JavaScript and leverage the power of the Go templating language to generate dashboards (called consoles) that are served by the Prometheus server itself. This makes them blazingly fast and endlessly customizable. Console templates are as powerful as they are complex. We are going to introduce this feature by giving you a small overview of how to use and build console templates in the next section.