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title: Visualize data with Grafana | Tiger Data Docs
description: Integrate Managed Service for TimescaleDB as a data source in Grafana to visualize your data
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You can integrate Managed Service for TimescaleDB with Grafana to visualize your data. Grafana service in MST has built-in Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Jaeger, and other data source plugins that allow you to query and visualize data from a compatible database.

## Before you begin

- Created a Managed Service for TimescaleDB service
- Created a Grafana service

## Configure Managed Service for TimescaleDB as a data source

You can configure a Managed Service for TimescaleDB service as a data source to a Grafana service to query and visualize the data from the database.

1. **Set up the Datasource integration**

   In [MST Console](https://portal.managed.timescale.com/login), click the MST service that you want to add as a data source for the Grafana service. In the `Overview` tab, go to the `Service Integrations` section and click `Set up integration`. In the `Available service integrations for TimescaleDB` dialog, click the `Use Integration` button for `Datasource`.

2. **Enable the Grafana service**

   In the dialog that appears, choose the Grafana service in the drop-down menu, and click the `Enable` button.

3. **Open and log in to Grafana**

   In the `Services` view, click the Grafana service to which you added the MST MST service as a data source. In the `Overview` tab for the Grafana service, make a note of the `User` and `Password` fields, then click the link in the `Service URI` field to open Grafana. Log in with your service credentials.

4. **Verify the data source**

   Navigate to `Configuration` → `Data sources`. The data sources page lists Managed Service for TimescaleDB as a configured data source for the Grafana instance.

When you have configured Managed Service for TimescaleDB as a data source in Grafana, you can create panels that are populated with data using SQL.