# Tips & Hints

- [User Interface](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/user-interface.md): Built as a specialized plugin for the Grafana framework, Datasentinel offers an intuitive interface that allows users to become adept within minutes
- [Tags](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/tags.md): A tag is comprised of both a key and a corresponding value, working together to represent a distinct property.
- [Metric Correlation](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/metric-correlation.md): This ability to correlate metrics greatly enhances analytical capabilities by effortlessly revealing potential relationships and patterns between separate measurements.
- [Consolidated View](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/consolidated-view.md): One of the standout features of Datasentinel is its ability to provide a consolidated view of multiple instances concurrently.
- [Graphical Annotations](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/graphical-annotations.md): The main dashboards employ graphical annotations to spotlight significant events, delivering an instant visual summary.
- [Predefined Providers](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/predefined-providers.md): DataSentinel allows users to associate their monitored PostgreSQL instances with specific providers.
- [Wait Event Description](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/wait-event-description.md): A wait event in PostgreSQL is a fundamental concept used in performance monitoring and tuning.
- [Read Replicas](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/read-replicas.md): Datasentinel offers efficient monitoring of PostgreSQL Read Replicas through read-only access. It supports both local agent-based and agentless setups, ensuring flexible and seamless integration.
- [Agentless & System Metrics](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/agentless-and-system-metrics.md): One of the features of Datasentinel is its ability to offer comprehensive monitoring of PostgreSQL clusters without the need for installing agents on your database servers.
- [Query Identifier](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/query-identifier.md): From the beginning, Datasentinel has relied on an MD5 hash of the query text to compute query identifiers.
- [Simplified pg\_instance Display](/manual/features/tips-and-hints/simplified-pg_instance-display.md): Created by Datasentinel, the pg\_instance tag is a unique identifier for your instance across the platform.