How to use the selected period of time in a query?

Question

I\'m using Grafana with Prometheus and I\'d like to build a query that depends on the selected period of time selected in the upper right corner of the screen.

Is there

Answer 1

If you are looking at using prometheus as data source, $__range supports your dashboard time is great.

 increase(gin_total_requests[$__range])

Why create your variable when you can use inbuilt Global variable.

I have added links to documentations to back up my answer Grafan 5.3+