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title: "Create a new dashboard | Grafana Labs"
description: "Create a dashboard in a Git Sync provisioned folder."
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# Create a new dashboard

Creating a new dashboard in a Git Sync provisioned folder follows the standard Grafana dashboard creation process. The key difference is selecting a provisioned folder as the location, which ensures the dashboard is tracked by Git Sync and saved to your connected repository.

To create a new dashboard in a Git Sync provisioned folder, complete the following steps:

In this section, you create a dashboard and add a first visualization.

01. In Grafana, click **Dashboards** in the navigation menu.
02. Click **New > New dashboard**.
03. If the **Add** sidebar is not open, click **Add** (plus) in the dashboard edit pane.
04. In the **Add** sidebar, click **Panel** to add a panel to the dashboard.
05. Click **Edit visualization** (or **Configure visualization**) to open the panel editor.
06. Select a data source for your visualization, for example, a Prometheus data source.
07. In **Queries & Expressions**, make sure query **A** is selected and your Prometheus data source is chosen.
08. Above the Metric field, find the **Builder** / **Code** toggle (next to **Run queries**) and click **Code**.
09. In the Code query field under query **A**, enter a PromQL query that exists in your data source, for example, `up`.
10. In the right sidebar, open the **All visualizations** tab and click **Time series**.
11. Click **Run queries** to refresh the preview.
12. Click **Back to dashboard** to return to the dashboard with your panel.

The dashboard is created with your first visualization. The dashboard remains unsaved until you save it to a Git Sync provisioned folder, which you’ll do in the next milestone.

In the next milestone, you’ll save the dashboard to Git using Git Sync workflows.

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### More to explore (optional)

At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths:

- [Create a dashboard](/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/build-dashboards/create-dashboard/)