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-title: "Chart dimensions, contexts, and families"
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- "Netdata organizes charts into dimensions, contexts, and families to automatically
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- and meaningfully organize thousands of metrics into interactive charts."
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-custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/dimensions-contexts-families.md"
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-sidebar_label: "Chart dimensions, contexts, and families"
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-learn_status: "Published"
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-learn_topic_type: "Concepts"
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-learn_rel_path: "Concepts"
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# Chart dimensions, contexts, and families
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-While Netdata's charts require no configuration and are [easy to interact with](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.md),
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+While Netdata's charts require no configuration and are [easy to interact with](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/interact-new-charts.md),
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they have a lot of underlying complexity. To meaningfully organize charts out of the box based on what's happening in
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your nodes, Netdata uses the concepts of **dimensions**, **contexts**, and **families**.
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-Understanding how these work will help you more easily navigate the dashboard, [write new
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-alarms](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/REFERENCE.md), or play around with the [API](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/web/api/README.md).
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-For a refresher on the anatomy of a chart, see [dashboards and charts](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/how-dashboard-works.md).
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+Understanding how these work will help you more easily navigate the dashboard,
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+[write new alarms](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/REFERENCE.md), or play around
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+with the [API](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/web/api/README.md).
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## Dimension
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The chart shows 13 unique dimensions, such as `httpd` for the CPU utilization for web servers, `kernel` for anything
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related to the Linux kernel, and so on. In your dashboard, these specific dimensions will almost certainly be different.
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-Dimensions can be [hidden](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.md#show-and-hide-dimensions) to help you focus your
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+Dimensions can be [hidden](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/interact-new-charts.md#show-and-hide-dimensions) to help you focus your
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attention.
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## Context
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If you feel comfortable with the [dashboard](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/how-dashboard-works.md) and interacting with charts, we
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recommend learning about [configuration](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md). While Netdata doesn't _require_ a complicated setup
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process or a query language to create charts, there are a lot of ways to tweak the experience to match your needs.
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-
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-### Further reading & related information
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-- Dashboard
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- - [How the dashboard works](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/how-dashboard-works.md)
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- - [Interact with charts](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.md)
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- - **[Chart dimensions, contexts, and families](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/dimensions-contexts-families.md)**
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- - [Select timeframes to visualize](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/visualization-date-and-time-controls.md)
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- - [Import, export, and print a snapshot](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/import-export-print-snapshot.md)
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- - [Customize the standard dashboard](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/customize.md)
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