refactor(dashboards): let getPanelBuilderQuery answer for a query-less kind

Both callers that stage a panel's query into the URL asked the capabilities guard
whether the kind was query-less before calling getPanelBuilderQuery — the same
question, phrased the same way, in two hooks that otherwise share nothing.

The function itself knows: it already reads the kind's definition for a default
signal, so it returns null when there is no query arm and callers skip the
compositeQuery param on a falsy result.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/ConfigPane/ConfigPane.tsx

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type {
 	DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO,
 } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import { getSupportedSignals } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
 import { resolveSignal } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getBuilderQueries';
 import type { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ function ConfigPane({
 	const definition = getPanelDefinition(panelKind);
 	const sections = definition.sections;
 
-	const signal = resolveSignal(spec.queries, definition.supportedSignals[0]);
+	const signal = resolveSignal(spec.queries, getSupportedSignals(panelKind)[0]);
 
 	// Title/description are just a slice of the spec — edit them through the same
 	// onChangeSpec path the sections use, so there's a single editing surface.

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/ConfigPane/PanelTypeSwitcher/__tests__/PanelTypeSwitcher.test.tsx

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ describe('PanelTypeSwitcher', () => {
 		// List supports only logs/traces; every other kind also supports metrics.
 		// Query-type support comes from SUPPORTED_QUERY_TYPES (all three by default).
 		mockGetPanelDefinition.mockImplementation((kind: string) => ({
+			mode: 'query',
 			supportedSignals:
 				kind === 'signoz/ListPanel'
 					? ['logs', 'traces']

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/ConfigPane/sections/VisualizationSection/__tests__/VisualizationSection.test.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import VisualizationSection from '../VisualizationSection';
 // the test doesn't pull the whole panel registry (renderers, chart libs).
 jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry', () => ({
 	getPanelDefinition: jest.fn(() => ({
+		mode: 'query',
 		supportedSignals: ['metrics', 'logs', 'traces'],
 		supportedQueryTypes: ['builder', 'clickhouse_sql', 'promql'],
 	})),

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditor.module.scss

@@ -26,3 +26,16 @@
 		background: var(--l2-border);
 	}
 }
+
+// The static editor's preview: the panel card the grid shows, minus actions.
+.staticPreviewSurface {
+	display: flex;
+	flex-direction: column;
+	height: 100%;
+	min-height: 0;
+	margin: 12px;
+	border: 1px solid var(--l2-border);
+	border-radius: 4px;
+	background: var(--l2-background);
+	overflow: hidden;
+}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorLayout/PanelEditorLayout.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
+import {
+	ResizableHandle,
+	ResizablePanel,
+	ResizablePanelGroup,
+	useDefaultLayout,
+} from '@signozhq/ui/resizable';
+
+import layoutStorage from '../layoutStorage';
+
+import styles from '../PanelEditor.module.scss';
+
+/** A resizable pane's bounds, in the percentage strings `ResizablePanel` takes. */
+interface PaneSize {
+	minSize: string;
+	maxSize: string;
+	defaultSize: string;
+}
+
+/** How the left column divides between the preview and the editor pane. */
+export interface PaneSplit {
+	preview: PaneSize;
+	editor: PaneSize;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Vertical split per authoring mode. The query builder is a compact form, so the
+ * preview keeps the room; a static kind's editor pane is the surface being worked
+ * in, so it gets more and can grow further.
+ */
+export const PANE_SPLIT = {
+	query: {
+		preview: { minSize: '55%', maxSize: '65%', defaultSize: '60%' },
+		editor: { minSize: '35%', maxSize: '45%', defaultSize: '40%' },
+	},
+	static: {
+		preview: { minSize: '40%', maxSize: '65%', defaultSize: '55%' },
+		editor: { minSize: '35%', maxSize: '60%', defaultSize: '45%' },
+	},
+} as const satisfies Record<string, PaneSplit>;
+
+interface PanelEditorLayoutProps {
+	/** Save/close chrome — its affordances differ per authoring mode. */
+	header: ReactNode;
+	/** Upper-left: what the panel will look like once saved. */
+	preview: ReactNode;
+	/** Lower-left: the kind's `EditorPane` — the query builder, or a static kind's own. */
+	editor: ReactNode;
+	/** Right column: the kind's config sections. */
+	config: ReactNode;
+	split: PaneSplit;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The panel editor's frame: header, the resizable three-pane arrangement, and the
+ * persistence of what the user drags. Owned once so both authoring modes cannot
+ * drift apart on pane bounds or share a layout id by accident — they differ only in
+ * `split` and in what fills the slots.
+ */
+function PanelEditorLayout({
+	header,
+	preview,
+	editor,
+	config,
+	split,
+}: PanelEditorLayoutProps): JSX.Element {
+	const { defaultLayout, onLayoutChanged } = useDefaultLayout({
+		id: 'panel-editor-v2',
+		storage: layoutStorage,
+	});
+	const {
+		defaultLayout: mainDefaultLayout,
+		onLayoutChanged: onMainLayoutChanged,
+	} = useDefaultLayout({
+		id: 'panel-editor-v2-main',
+		storage: layoutStorage,
+	});
+
+	return (
+		<div className={styles.page} data-testid="panel-editor-v2">
+			{header}
+			<ResizablePanelGroup
+				id="panel-editor-v2"
+				orientation="horizontal"
+				defaultLayout={defaultLayout}
+				onLayoutChanged={onLayoutChanged}
+			>
+				<ResizablePanel minSize="75%" maxSize="80%" defaultSize="80%">
+					<div className={styles.left}>
+						<ResizablePanelGroup
+							id="panel-editor-v2-main"
+							orientation="vertical"
+							defaultLayout={mainDefaultLayout}
+							onLayoutChanged={onMainLayoutChanged}
+						>
+							<ResizablePanel {...split.preview}>{preview}</ResizablePanel>
+							<ResizableHandle withHandle className={styles.handle} />
+							<ResizablePanel {...split.editor}>{editor}</ResizablePanel>
+						</ResizablePanelGroup>
+					</div>
+				</ResizablePanel>
+				<ResizableHandle withHandle className={styles.handle} />
+				<ResizablePanel
+					minSize="20%"
+					maxSize="25%"
+					defaultSize="20%"
+					className={styles.right}
+				>
+					{config}
+				</ResizablePanel>
+			</ResizablePanelGroup>
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default PanelEditorLayout;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/PanelEditorQueryBuilder.tsx

@@ -21,20 +21,15 @@ import { useQueryBuilder } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useQueryBuilder';
 import { useIsDarkMode } from 'hooks/useDarkMode';
 import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
-import {
-	getHiddenQueryBuilderFields,
-	getSupportedQueryTypes,
-} from '../../Panels/capabilities';
-import {
-	PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE,
-	type PanelKind,
-} from '../../Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { mergeQueryBuilderFieldRule } from '../../Panels/types/panelCapabilities';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from '../../Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from '../../Panels/types/panelKind';
 
 import styles from './PanelEditorQueryBuilder.module.scss';
 
 interface PanelEditorQueryBuilderProps {
-	/** The edited panel's visualization kind — drives supported query types + field visibility via the capabilities guard. */
-	panelKind: PanelKind;
+	/** The edited kind's definition — drives supported query types + field visibility. */
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
 	/** The panel's current signal; selects per-signal query-builder field rules. */
 	signal: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO;
 	/** Preview fetch in flight — drives the Stage & Run button's loading/cancel state. */
@@ -55,7 +50,7 @@ interface PanelEditorQueryBuilderProps {
  * `QueryBuilderProvider`. `usePanelEditorQuerySync` owns the panel↔provider sync.
  */
 function PanelEditorQueryBuilder({
-	panelKind,
+	panelDefinition,
 	signal,
 	isLoadingQueries,
 	onStageRunQuery,
@@ -65,10 +60,10 @@ function PanelEditorQueryBuilder({
 }: PanelEditorQueryBuilderProps): JSX.Element {
 	// The shared QueryBuilderV2 provider still speaks the legacy PANEL_TYPES; what the
 	// builder offers for this kind comes from the kind's own declaration.
-	const panelType = PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[panelKind];
+	const panelType = PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[panelDefinition.kind];
 	// Raw rows: the builder drops its aggregation controls, and with them the trace
 	// operator that combines aggregated trace queries (V1 parity).
-	const isListViewPanel = panelKind === 'signoz/ListPanel';
+	const isListViewPanel = panelDefinition.kind === 'signoz/ListPanel';
 	const { currentQuery, redirectWithQueryBuilderData } = useQueryBuilder();
 	const isDarkMode = useIsDarkMode();
 
@@ -99,12 +94,12 @@ function PanelEditorQueryBuilder({
 	// Per-kind query-builder field rules from the guard (e.g. List hides step interval
 	// and having), passed to QueryBuilderV2 as its `filterConfigs`.
 	const filterConfigs: QueryBuilderProps['filterConfigs'] = useMemo(
-		() => getHiddenQueryBuilderFields(panelKind, signal),
-		[panelKind, signal],
+		() => mergeQueryBuilderFieldRule(panelDefinition.queryBuilderFields, signal),
+		[panelDefinition.queryBuilderFields, signal],
 	);
 
 	const items = useMemo(() => {
-		const supportedQueryTypes = getSupportedQueryTypes(panelKind);
+		const { supportedQueryTypes } = panelDefinition;
 
 		const queryTypeComponents = {
 			[EQueryType.QUERY_BUILDER]: {
@@ -151,7 +146,7 @@ function PanelEditorQueryBuilder({
 			),
 			children: queryTypeComponents[queryType].component,
 		}));
-	}, [panelKind, panelType, filterConfigs, isDarkMode, isListViewPanel]);
+	}, [panelDefinition, panelType, filterConfigs, isDarkMode, isListViewPanel]);
 
 	return (
 		<div

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import type { QueryEditorPaneProps } from '../../Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from './PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
+
+/**
+ * The default query-kind editor pane: the query-builder tabs with no extras. A
+ * kind that needs more (e.g. List's columns editor) declares its own wrapper.
+ */
+function QueryBuilderEditorPane({
+	panelDefinition,
+	signal,
+	isLoadingQueries,
+	onStageRunQuery,
+	onCancelQuery,
+	stickyHeader,
+}: QueryEditorPaneProps): JSX.Element {
+	return (
+		<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
+			panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+			signal={signal}
+			isLoadingQueries={isLoadingQueries}
+			onStageRunQuery={onStageRunQuery}
+			onCancelQuery={onCancelQuery}
+			stickyHeader={stickyHeader}
+		/>
+	);
+}
+
+export default QueryBuilderEditorPane;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/__tests__/PanelEditorQueryBuilder.test.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import { OPERATORS } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
 import { useQueryBuilder } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useQueryBuilder';
 import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
+import { requireQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
+import type { PanelKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+
 import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from '../PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
 
 // Capture the props the (real-guard-fed) QueryBuilderV2 receives without rendering it.
@@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ function renderBuilder(
 ): void {
 	render(
 		<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
-			panelKind={panelKind as never}
+			panelDefinition={requireQueryPanelDefinition(panelKind as PanelKind)}
 			signal={signal}
 			isLoadingQueries={false}
 			onStageRunQuery={jest.fn()}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PreviewPane/PreviewPane.tsx

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import DateTimeSelectionV2 from 'container/TopNav/DateTimeSelectionV2';
 import PanelBody from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelBody/PanelBody';
 import PanelHeader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
 import type { AnyPanelInteractionProps } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/interactions';
-import type { RenderablePanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
 import type { DashboardPreference } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
 import { getPanelQueryType } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getPanelQueryType';
 import type {
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ import styles from './PreviewPane.module.scss';
 interface PreviewPaneProps {
 	panelId: string;
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
-	/** Resolved definition for the panel kind; */
-	panelDefinition: RenderablePanelDefinition;
+	/** The kind's definition, narrowed to the query arm — this preview is the query render path. */
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
 	data: PanelQueryData;
 	/** Any fetch in flight — drives the header spinner and the body's loading state. */
 	isFetching: boolean;
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ function PreviewPane({
 						hideActions
 					/>
 					<PanelBody
-						panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+						Renderer={panelDefinition.Renderer}
 						panel={panel}
 						panelId={panelId}
 						data={data}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/QueryEditorBody.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,331 @@
+import { useCallback, useMemo } from 'react';
+import { toast } from '@signozhq/ui/sonner';
+import { ConfigProvider } from 'antd';
+import {
+	type DashboardtypesPanelDTO,
+	TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
+} from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { useQueryBuilder } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useQueryBuilder';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import type { PanelKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import {
+	type SectionConfig,
+	type SectionControls,
+	SectionKind,
+} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/sections';
+import { getBuilderQueries } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getBuilderQueries';
+import { useErrorModal } from 'providers/ErrorModalProvider';
+
+import { getExecStats } from '../queryV5/v5ResponseData';
+import { usePanelInteractions } from '../PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/hooks/usePanelInteractions';
+import { useScrollIntoViewStore } from '../store/useScrollIntoViewStore';
+import ConfigPane from './ConfigPane/ConfigPane';
+import Header from './Header/Header';
+import PanelEditorLayout, {
+	PANE_SPLIT,
+} from './PanelEditorLayout/PanelEditorLayout';
+import PreviewPane from './PreviewPane/PreviewPane';
+import { useLegendSeries } from './hooks/useLegendSeries';
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from './types';
+import { usePanelEditSession } from './hooks/usePanelEditSession';
+import { usePanelEditorSave } from './hooks/usePanelEditorSave';
+import { useSeedMetricUnit } from './hooks/useSeedMetricUnit';
+import { useSeedNewListColumns } from './hooks/useSeedNewListColumns';
+import { useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange } from './hooks/useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange';
+import { useSwitchToViewMode } from './hooks/useSwitchToViewMode';
+import { useTableColumns } from './hooks/useTableColumns';
+
+import logEvent from '@/api/common/logEvent';
+import { DashboardEvents } from '../../constants/events';
+
+// The query builder sits in an `overflow:hidden` resizable pane, so its Select
+// popups (group-by, order-by, having, …) clip when they open into the short pane.
+// Portal them to the document body; the query-builder filters honor this via
+// `useSelectPopupContainer`. Scoped to the full-page editor — the View modal keeps
+// its own `ConfigProvider` so popups stay inside the focus-trapped dialog.
+const getBodyPopupContainer = (): HTMLElement => document.body;
+
+interface QueryEditorBodyProps {
+	dashboardId: string;
+	panelId: string;
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	/**
+	 * The persisted panel the dirty check compares against. Distinct from `panel` (the
+	 * seed), which may carry unsaved edits handed off from View mode. Omit for a new panel.
+	 */
+	savedPanel?: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	/** Creating a new panel (seeded default) vs editing an existing one. */
+	isNew?: boolean;
+	/** Target section for a new panel; falls back to the last/new section. */
+	layoutIndex?: number;
+	/** The dashboard can be edited (unlocked + permission); gates Save. */
+	isEditable: boolean;
+	/** Why Save is disabled (locked / no permission); '' when editable. */
+	editDisabledReason: string;
+	/** Leave the editor (navigate back to the dashboard) without saving. */
+	onClose: () => void;
+	/** Called after a successful save — navigates back to the dashboard. */
+	onSaved: () => void;
+	/** Draft state, owned by the shell so it survives an authoring-mode switch. */
+	draftApi: PanelEditorDraftApi;
+	/** The draft kind's definition, narrowed by the shell's fork. */
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
+	/** Kind switch, owned by the shell (its cache must survive the fork swap). */
+	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The query-kind editor body: a resizable split with the live preview + the
+ * kind's editor pane on the left and the config pane on the right. Draft and
+ * kind-switch state live in the shell; this body owns the query session and the
+ * save round-trip.
+ */
+function QueryEditorBody({
+	dashboardId,
+	panelId,
+	panel,
+	savedPanel,
+	isNew = false,
+	layoutIndex,
+	isEditable,
+	editDisabledReason,
+	onClose,
+	onSaved,
+	draftApi,
+	panelDefinition,
+	onChangePanelKind,
+}: QueryEditorBodyProps): JSX.Element {
+	// Shared editing pipeline (draft + query + staged-query sync + kind switch). A new
+	// panel always serializes its seed query and seeds the builder's default signal.
+	const {
+		draft,
+		spec,
+		setSpec,
+		isSpecDirty,
+		query,
+		runQuery,
+		isQueryDirty,
+		buildSaveSpec,
+	} = usePanelEditSession({
+		panel,
+		panelId,
+		savedPanel,
+		alwaysSerializeQuery: isNew,
+		seedQuerySignal: true,
+		draftApi,
+	});
+	const {
+		data,
+		isFetching,
+		isPreviousData,
+		error,
+		cancelQuery,
+		refetch,
+		pagination,
+	} = query;
+
+	// Live query type (the selected tab) — the type switcher disables kinds that can't be
+	// authored in it. Read from the provider, not the spec: a new panel's spec carries no
+	// query until staged, so the spec would lag the tab.
+	const { currentQuery } = useQueryBuilder();
+	const { save, isSaving } = usePanelEditorSave({
+		dashboardId,
+		panelId,
+		isNew,
+		layoutIndex,
+	});
+
+	const panelKind = draft.spec.plugin.kind;
+	// The kind's own lower pane (query builder, plus e.g. List's columns footer).
+	const { EditorPane } = panelDefinition;
+
+	// The current kind's Formatting controls — which unit field (panel-wide `unit` vs
+	// per-column `columnUnits`) a metric unit may seed into. Same source of truth the
+	// switch-time seeding in `buildPluginSpec` reads, so the two stay in lockstep.
+	const formattingControls = useMemo(():
+		| SectionControls[SectionKind.Formatting]
+		| undefined => {
+		const section = panelDefinition.sections.find(
+			(
+				candidate,
+			): candidate is Extract<SectionConfig, { kind: SectionKind.Formatting }> =>
+				candidate.kind === SectionKind.Formatting,
+		);
+		return section?.controls;
+	}, [panelDefinition]);
+
+	// Unsaved-edits flag driving the discard confirmation on close (Save is always
+	// enabled). Read the seed `panel`, not the live `draft` — the staged-query sync
+	// commits the seed into the draft on open, which would falsely dirty an untouched
+	// query-less new panel.
+	const isDirty = useMemo(
+		() => isSpecDirty || isQueryDirty || (isNew && panel.spec.queries.length > 0),
+		[isSpecDirty, isQueryDirty, isNew, panel.spec.queries.length],
+	);
+
+	const isListPanel = panelKind === 'signoz/ListPanel';
+	// The builder-query `signal` literal matches the TelemetrytypesSignalDTO enum
+	// values; cast at this boundary (as ConfigPane does) so the columns editor's
+	// field-key lookup is typed.
+	const listSignal =
+		(getBuilderQueries(spec.queries)[0]?.signal as TelemetrytypesSignalDTO) ||
+		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.logs;
+
+	// Swap the List panel's columns to the new signal's defaults on signal change
+	// (V1 had a per-signal field list; V2 has one `selectFields`).
+	useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange({
+		enabled: isListPanel,
+		signal: listSignal,
+		spec,
+		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
+	});
+
+	// Seed a new List panel's columns from the query's resolved signal (not the kind's
+	// default logs signal) so a traces-List export gets traces columns, not logs.
+	useSeedNewListColumns({
+		enabled: isNew && isListPanel,
+		signal: listSignal,
+		spec,
+		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
+	});
+
+	// Drag-to-zoom on the preview updates the URL-synced time window, as on the dashboard.
+	const { onDragSelect } = usePanelInteractions();
+	const legendSeries = useLegendSeries(draft, data);
+	const tableColumns = useTableColumns(draft, data);
+
+	// Resolves the selected metric's unit and, on a new panel, seeds it into the right
+	// formatting field for the kind (panel-wide `unit`, or per-column `columnUnits` for
+	// a Table once results resolve them). `metricUnit` also drives the mismatch warning.
+	const { metricUnit } = useSeedMetricUnit({
+		isNewPanel: isNew,
+		formattingControls,
+		columns: tableColumns,
+		spec,
+		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
+	});
+
+	// Smallest query step interval (seconds) — the floor for the span-gaps
+	// threshold. Undefined until results carry step metadata.
+	const stepInterval = useMemo((): number | undefined => {
+		const intervals = getExecStats(data.response)?.stepIntervals;
+		const values = intervals ? Object.values(intervals) : [];
+		return values.length ? Math.min(...values) : undefined;
+	}, [data.response]);
+
+	const onSwitchToView = useSwitchToViewMode({
+		dashboardId,
+		panelId,
+		panelType: PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[panelKind],
+		query: currentQuery,
+		spec: draft.spec,
+	});
+
+	const setScrollTargetId = useScrollIntoViewStore((s) => s.setScrollTargetId);
+	const { showErrorModal } = useErrorModal();
+
+	const onSave = useCallback(async (): Promise<void> => {
+		if (!isEditable) {
+			return;
+		}
+		try {
+			// Bake the live query into the spec so unstaged edits are saved too.
+			const savedPanelId = await save(buildSaveSpec(draft.spec));
+			// Reveal the saved panel once the dashboard re-renders.
+			setScrollTargetId(savedPanelId);
+			toast.success('Panel saved', {
+				position: 'top-center',
+			});
+			onSaved();
+		} catch (err) {
+			showErrorModal(err);
+		}
+	}, [
+		isEditable,
+		save,
+		buildSaveSpec,
+		draft.spec,
+		setScrollTargetId,
+		onSaved,
+		showErrorModal,
+	]);
+
+	// Leaving an existing panel's editor (without saving) still returns to it, so
+	// the dashboard lands on that panel rather than scrolled to the top. A new,
+	// unsaved panel has no persisted target, so there's nothing to reveal.
+	const onCloseEditor = useCallback((): void => {
+		if (!isNew) {
+			setScrollTargetId(panelId);
+		}
+		onClose();
+	}, [isNew, panelId, setScrollTargetId, onClose]);
+
+	const switchToViewMode = useCallback((): void => {
+		logEvent(DashboardEvents.SWITCH_TO_VIEW_MODE, {
+			panelId: panelId,
+		});
+		onSwitchToView();
+	}, [onSwitchToView]);
+
+	return (
+		<PanelEditorLayout
+			split={PANE_SPLIT.query}
+			header={
+				<Header
+					isDirty={isDirty}
+					isSaving={isSaving}
+					showSwitchToView={!isNew}
+					readOnly={!isEditable}
+					readOnlyReason={editDisabledReason}
+					onSave={onSave}
+					onSwitchToView={switchToViewMode}
+					onClose={onCloseEditor}
+				/>
+			}
+			preview={
+				<PreviewPane
+					panelId={panelId}
+					panel={draft}
+					panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+					data={data}
+					isFetching={isFetching}
+					isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
+					error={error}
+					refetch={refetch}
+					onDragSelect={onDragSelect}
+					pagination={pagination}
+				/>
+			}
+			editor={
+				<ConfigProvider getPopupContainer={getBodyPopupContainer}>
+					<EditorPane
+						panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+						signal={listSignal}
+						isLoadingQueries={isFetching}
+						onStageRunQuery={runQuery}
+						onCancelQuery={cancelQuery}
+						spec={spec}
+						onChangeSpec={setSpec}
+					/>
+				</ConfigProvider>
+			}
+			config={
+				<ConfigPane
+					panel={draft}
+					panelId={panelId}
+					spec={spec}
+					onChangeSpec={setSpec}
+					onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+					queryType={currentQuery.queryType}
+					legendSeries={legendSeries}
+					tableColumns={tableColumns}
+					stepInterval={stepInterval}
+					metricUnit={metricUnit}
+				/>
+			}
+		/>
+	);
+}
+
+export default QueryEditorBody;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/StaticEditorBody.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+import { useCallback } from 'react';
+import { toast } from '@signozhq/ui/sonner';
+import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
+import StaticPanelBody from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody';
+import PanelHeader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
+import type { RenderableStaticPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import type { PanelKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
+import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
+import { useErrorModal } from 'providers/ErrorModalProvider';
+
+import { useScrollIntoViewStore } from '../store/useScrollIntoViewStore';
+import ConfigPane from './ConfigPane/ConfigPane';
+import Header from './Header/Header';
+import PanelEditorLayout, {
+	PANE_SPLIT,
+} from './PanelEditorLayout/PanelEditorLayout';
+import type { PanelEditorContainerProps } from './index';
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from './types';
+import { usePanelEditorSave } from './hooks/usePanelEditorSave';
+
+import styles from './PanelEditor.module.scss';
+
+interface StaticEditorBodyProps extends PanelEditorContainerProps {
+	draftApi: PanelEditorDraftApi;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;
+	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Editor body for a kind that renders from its own plugin spec: the kind's
+ * editor pane under a live preview of the draft, the config pane on the right.
+ * No query session, no builder seeding, no staged-run — the preview re-renders
+ * from the draft spec on every edit.
+ */
+function StaticEditorBody({
+	dashboardId,
+	panelId,
+	isNew = false,
+	layoutIndex,
+	isEditable,
+	editDisabledReason,
+	onClose,
+	onSaved,
+	draftApi,
+	panelDefinition,
+	onChangePanelKind,
+}: StaticEditorBodyProps): JSX.Element {
+	const { draft, spec, setSpec, isSpecDirty } = draftApi;
+	const { EditorPane } = panelDefinition;
+
+	const { save, isSaving } = usePanelEditorSave({
+		dashboardId,
+		panelId,
+		isNew,
+		layoutIndex,
+	});
+
+	const setScrollTargetId = useScrollIntoViewStore((s) => s.setScrollTargetId);
+	const { showErrorModal } = useErrorModal();
+
+	const onSave = useCallback(async (): Promise<void> => {
+		if (!isEditable) {
+			return;
+		}
+		try {
+			// `queries: []` is the only shape the API accepts for a static kind.
+			const savedPanelId = await save({ ...draft.spec, queries: [] });
+			setScrollTargetId(savedPanelId);
+			toast.success('Panel saved', {
+				position: 'top-center',
+			});
+			onSaved();
+		} catch (err) {
+			showErrorModal(err);
+		}
+	}, [isEditable, save, draft.spec, setScrollTargetId, onSaved, showErrorModal]);
+
+	const onCloseEditor = useCallback((): void => {
+		if (!isNew) {
+			setScrollTargetId(panelId);
+		}
+		onClose();
+	}, [isNew, panelId, setScrollTargetId, onClose]);
+
+	return (
+		<PanelEditorLayout
+			split={PANE_SPLIT.static}
+			header={
+				<Header
+					isDirty={isSpecDirty}
+					isSaving={isSaving}
+					showSwitchToView={false}
+					readOnly={!isEditable}
+					readOnlyReason={editDisabledReason}
+					onSave={onSave}
+					onClose={onCloseEditor}
+				/>
+			}
+			preview={
+				<div className={styles.staticPreviewSurface}>
+					<PanelHeader
+						panelId={panelId}
+						panel={draft}
+						data={EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA}
+						isFetching={false}
+						error={null}
+						hideActions
+					/>
+					<StaticPanelBody
+						panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+						panel={draft}
+						panelId={panelId}
+						panelMode={PanelMode.DASHBOARD_EDIT}
+					/>
+				</div>
+			}
+			editor={<EditorPane spec={spec} onChangeSpec={setSpec} />}
+			config={
+				<ConfigPane
+					panel={draft}
+					panelId={panelId}
+					spec={spec}
+					onChangeSpec={setSpec}
+					onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+					queryType={EQueryType.QUERY_BUILDER}
+					legendSeries={[]}
+					tableColumns={[]}
+				/>
+			}
+		/>
+	);
+}
+
+export default StaticEditorBody;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/__tests__/PanelEditorContainer.test.tsx

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { toast } from '@signozhq/ui/sonner';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import { PANEL_TYPES } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
+import { getSupportedSignals } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
 import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
 
 import PanelEditorContainer from '../index';
@@ -232,7 +233,12 @@ describe('PanelEditorContainer composition', () => {
 			}),
 		);
 		expect(mockQbProps).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-			expect.objectContaining({ panelKind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel' }),
+			expect.objectContaining({
+				panelDefinition: expect.objectContaining({
+					kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel',
+					mode: 'query',
+				}),
+			}),
 		);
 		expect(mockConfigProps).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
 			expect.objectContaining({
@@ -256,7 +262,7 @@ describe('PanelEditorContainer composition', () => {
 				setSpec: mockSetSpec,
 				refetch: mockRefetch,
 				alwaysSerializeQuery: false,
-				signal: getPanelDefinition('signoz/TimeSeriesPanel').supportedSignals[0],
+				signal: getSupportedSignals('signoz/TimeSeriesPanel')[0],
 			}),
 		);
 		expect(mockUseTypeSwitch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/__tests__/panelEditorUrlQuery.promql.test.tsx

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ import appStore from 'store';
 
 import { useOpenPanelEditor } from '../../hooks/useOpenPanelEditor';
 import { usePanelEditorQuerySync } from '../hooks/usePanelEditorQuerySync';
+import { requireQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
+
 import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from '../PanelEditorQueryBuilder/PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
 
 // jest.config maps the real hook to a no-op mock; this suite needs real navigation.
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ function EditorRoute(): JSX.Element {
 
 	return (
 		<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
-			panelKind="signoz/TimeSeriesPanel"
+			panelDefinition={requireQueryPanelDefinition('signoz/TimeSeriesPanel')}
 			signal={TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics}
 			isLoadingQueries={false}
 			onStageRunQuery={noop}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/__tests__/usePanelTypeSwitch.test.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ jest.mock('lib/query/panelQuery', () => ({
 }));
 jest.mock('../../../Panels/capabilities', () => ({
 	resolveQueryType: jest.fn(),
+	// Real predicate: these specs use real (query) kinds and the static path is
+	// exercised through its own cases below.
+	isQuerylessPanelKind: jest.requireActual('../../../Panels/capabilities')
+		.isQuerylessPanelKind,
 }));
 jest.mock('../../../queryV5/persesQueryAdapters', () => ({
 	toPerses: jest.fn(),

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelEditSession.ts

@@ -4,24 +4,19 @@ import type {
 	TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
 } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import type { PANEL_TYPES } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
-import {
-	getPanelDefinition,
-	isPanelKindSupported,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
-import type { RenderablePanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
-import {
-	PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE,
-	type PanelKind,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { requireQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
+import { isPanelKindSupported } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
 import {
 	usePanelQuery,
 	type PanelQueryTimeOverride,
 	type UsePanelQueryResult,
 } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery';
 
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from '../types';
 import { usePanelEditorDraft } from './usePanelEditorDraft';
 import { usePanelEditorQuerySync } from './usePanelEditorQuerySync';
-import { usePanelTypeSwitch } from './usePanelTypeSwitch';
 
 interface UsePanelEditSessionArgs {
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
@@ -38,6 +33,12 @@ interface UsePanelEditSessionArgs {
 	alwaysSerializeQuery?: boolean;
 	/** Seed an empty builder with the kind's default signal (new panels) — off for drilldown. */
 	seedQuerySignal?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Externally-owned draft. The editor shell hoists it above its mode fork so a
+	 * kind switch across modes survives the branch swap; hosts without a fork (the
+	 * View modal, until it forks) omit it and the session owns the draft.
+	 */
+	draftApi?: PanelEditorDraftApi;
 }
 
 export interface UsePanelEditSessionReturn {
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export interface UsePanelEditSessionReturn {
 	reset: () => void;
 	/** Draft kind → V1 panel type (drives the query builder + preview). */
 	panelType: PANEL_TYPES;
-	panelDefinition: RenderablePanelDefinition;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
 	/** The kind's first supported signal — seeds new queries/columns. */
 	defaultSignal: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO;
 	/** Shared query result for the draft over the resolved time window. */
@@ -62,8 +63,6 @@ export interface UsePanelEditSessionReturn {
 	buildSaveSpec: (
 		spec: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO,
 	) => DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO;
-	/** Switch the draft's visualization kind in place (reversible per session). */
-	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -80,14 +79,17 @@ export function usePanelEditSession({
 	time,
 	alwaysSerializeQuery = false,
 	seedQuerySignal = false,
+	draftApi,
 }: UsePanelEditSessionArgs): UsePanelEditSessionReturn {
-	const { draft, spec, setSpec, isSpecDirty, reset } = usePanelEditorDraft(
-		panel,
-		savedPanel,
-	);
+	// Called unconditionally (hooks rules); unused when a hoisted draft is passed in.
+	const internalDraftApi = usePanelEditorDraft(panel, savedPanel);
+	const { draft, spec, setSpec, isSpecDirty, reset } =
+		draftApi ?? internalDraftApi;
 
 	const panelKind = draft.spec.plugin.kind;
-	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(panelKind);
+	// Hosts fork on `definition.mode` before mounting this session (the editor and
+	// View modal shells) — asserted rather than assumed.
+	const panelDefinition = requireQueryPanelDefinition(panelKind);
 	const panelType = PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[panelKind];
 	const defaultSignal = panelDefinition.supportedSignals[0];
 
@@ -109,12 +111,6 @@ export function usePanelEditSession({
 		savedQueries: savedPanel?.spec.queries,
 	});
 
-	const { onChangePanelKind } = usePanelTypeSwitch({
-		spec: draft.spec,
-		panelType,
-		setSpec,
-	});
-
 	return {
 		draft,
 		spec,
@@ -128,6 +124,5 @@ export function usePanelEditSession({
 		runQuery,
 		isQueryDirty,
 		buildSaveSpec,
-		onChangePanelKind,
 	};
 }

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelTypeSwitch.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ import type {
 	Query,
 } from 'types/api/queryBuilder/queryBuilderData';
 
-import { resolveQueryType } from '../../Panels/capabilities';
+import {
+	isQuerylessPanelKind,
+	resolveQueryType,
+} from '../../Panels/capabilities';
 import {
 	PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE,
 	type PanelKind,
@@ -128,11 +131,25 @@ export function usePanelTypeSwitch({
 				queries,
 			});
 
-			// Revisit → restore the stash verbatim (the reversibility path).
+			// Revisit → restore the stash verbatim (the reversibility path). A static
+			// kind's stash carries `queries: []` and its builder query is untouched —
+			// there is no builder to re-seed for it.
 			const cached = cacheRef.current.get(newKind);
 			if (cached) {
 				setSpec(buildSpec(cached.pluginSpec, cached.queries));
-				redirectWithQueryBuilderData(cached.builderQuery);
+				if (!isQuerylessPanelKind(newKind)) {
+					redirectWithQueryBuilderData(cached.builderQuery);
+				}
+				return;
+			}
+
+			// First visit to a static kind → fresh spec from its sections, queries
+			// emptied (the API accepts nothing else), and the query builder left as-is:
+			// the stash above keeps the old kind's query for the return trip.
+			if (isQuerylessPanelKind(newKind)) {
+				const signal = getBuilderQueries(currentSpec.queries)[0]
+					?.signal as TelemetrytypesSignalDTO;
+				setSpec(buildSpec(getSwitchedPluginSpec(currentSpec, newKind, signal), []));
 				return;
 			}
 

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/index.tsx

@@ -1,56 +1,13 @@
-import { useCallback, useMemo } from 'react';
-import {
-	ResizableHandle,
-	ResizablePanel,
-	ResizablePanelGroup,
-	useDefaultLayout,
-} from '@signozhq/ui/resizable';
-import { toast } from '@signozhq/ui/sonner';
-import { ConfigProvider } from 'antd';
-import {
-	type DashboardtypesPanelDTO,
-	TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
-} from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
-import { useQueryBuilder } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useQueryBuilder';
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
 import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
-import {
-	type SectionConfig,
-	type SectionControls,
-	SectionKind,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/sections';
-import { getBuilderQueries } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getBuilderQueries';
-import { useErrorModal } from 'providers/ErrorModalProvider';
 
-import { getExecStats } from '../queryV5/v5ResponseData';
-import { usePanelInteractions } from '../PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/hooks/usePanelInteractions';
-import { useScrollIntoViewStore } from '../store/useScrollIntoViewStore';
-import ConfigPane from './ConfigPane/ConfigPane';
-import Header from './Header/Header';
-import layoutStorage from './layoutStorage';
-import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from './PanelEditorQueryBuilder/PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
-import PreviewPane from './PreviewPane/PreviewPane';
-import { useLegendSeries } from './hooks/useLegendSeries';
-import { usePanelEditSession } from './hooks/usePanelEditSession';
-import { usePanelEditorSave } from './hooks/usePanelEditorSave';
-import { useSeedMetricUnit } from './hooks/useSeedMetricUnit';
-import { useSeedNewListColumns } from './hooks/useSeedNewListColumns';
-import { useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange } from './hooks/useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange';
-import { useSwitchToViewMode } from './hooks/useSwitchToViewMode';
-import { useTableColumns } from './hooks/useTableColumns';
-import ListColumnsEditor from './ListColumnsEditor/ListColumnsEditor';
+import QueryEditorBody from './QueryEditorBody';
+import StaticEditorBody from './StaticEditorBody';
+import { usePanelEditorDraft } from './hooks/usePanelEditorDraft';
+import { usePanelTypeSwitch } from './hooks/usePanelTypeSwitch';
 
-import styles from './PanelEditor.module.scss';
-import logEvent from '@/api/common/logEvent';
-import { DashboardEvents } from '../../constants/events';
-
-// The query builder sits in an `overflow:hidden` resizable pane, so its Select
-// popups (group-by, order-by, having, …) clip when they open into the short pane.
-// Portal them to the document body; the query-builder filters honor this via
-// `useSelectPopupContainer`. Scoped to the full-page editor — the View modal keeps
-// its own `ConfigProvider` so popups stay inside the focus-trapped dialog.
-const getBodyPopupContainer = (): HTMLElement => document.body;
-
-interface PanelEditorContainerProps {
+export interface PanelEditorContainerProps {
 	dashboardId: string;
 	panelId: string;
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
@@ -74,293 +31,42 @@ interface PanelEditorContainerProps {
 }
 
 /**
- * V2 panel editor page body: a resizable split with the live preview + query
- * builder on the left and the config pane on the right. Owns the draft state and
- * the save round-trip.
+ * V2 panel editor page shell. Owns exactly the state that must survive a switch
+ * between authoring modes — the draft and the kind-switch cache — and forks on
+ * the draft kind's `mode`: query kinds get the session-backed body, static kinds
+ * an editor pane over a live preview with no query machinery at all.
  */
-function PanelEditorContainer({
-	dashboardId,
-	panelId,
-	panel,
-	savedPanel,
-	isNew = false,
-	layoutIndex,
-	isEditable,
-	editDisabledReason,
-	onClose,
-	onSaved,
-}: PanelEditorContainerProps): JSX.Element {
-	// Shared editing pipeline (draft + query + staged-query sync + kind switch). A new
-	// panel always serializes its seed query and seeds the builder's default signal.
-	const {
-		draft,
-		spec,
-		setSpec,
-		isSpecDirty,
-		panelDefinition,
-		query,
-		runQuery,
-		isQueryDirty,
-		buildSaveSpec,
-		onChangePanelKind,
-	} = usePanelEditSession({
-		panel,
-		panelId,
-		savedPanel,
-		alwaysSerializeQuery: isNew,
-		seedQuerySignal: true,
-	});
-	const {
-		data,
-		isFetching,
-		isPreviousData,
-		error,
-		cancelQuery,
-		refetch,
-		pagination,
-	} = query;
+function PanelEditorContainer(props: PanelEditorContainerProps): JSX.Element {
+	const { panel, savedPanel } = props;
+	const draftApi = usePanelEditorDraft(panel, savedPanel);
 
-	// Live query type (the selected tab) — the type switcher disables kinds that can't be
-	// authored in it. Read from the provider, not the spec: a new panel's spec carries no
-	// query until staged, so the spec would lag the tab.
-	const { currentQuery } = useQueryBuilder();
-	const { save, isSaving } = usePanelEditorSave({
-		dashboardId,
-		panelId,
-		isNew,
-		layoutIndex,
-	});
-	const { defaultLayout, onLayoutChanged } = useDefaultLayout({
-		id: 'panel-editor-v2',
-		storage: layoutStorage,
-	});
+	const panelKind = draftApi.draft.spec.plugin.kind;
+	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(panelKind);
 
-	const {
-		defaultLayout: mainDefaultLayout,
-		onLayoutChanged: onMainLayoutChanged,
-	} = useDefaultLayout({
-		id: 'panel-editor-v2-main',
-		storage: layoutStorage,
-	});
-
-	const panelKind = draft.spec.plugin.kind;
-
-	// The current kind's Formatting controls — which unit field (panel-wide `unit` vs
-	// per-column `columnUnits`) a metric unit may seed into. Same source of truth the
-	// switch-time seeding in `buildPluginSpec` reads, so the two stay in lockstep.
-	const formattingControls = useMemo(():
-		| SectionControls[SectionKind.Formatting]
-		| undefined => {
-		const section = panelDefinition.sections.find(
-			(
-				candidate,
-			): candidate is Extract<SectionConfig, { kind: SectionKind.Formatting }> =>
-				candidate.kind === SectionKind.Formatting,
-		);
-		return section?.controls;
-	}, [panelDefinition]);
-
-	// Unsaved-edits flag driving the discard confirmation on close (Save is always
-	// enabled). Read the seed `panel`, not the live `draft` — the staged-query sync
-	// commits the seed into the draft on open, which would falsely dirty an untouched
-	// query-less new panel.
-	const isDirty = useMemo(
-		() => isSpecDirty || isQueryDirty || (isNew && panel.spec.queries.length > 0),
-		[isSpecDirty, isQueryDirty, isNew, panel.spec.queries.length],
-	);
-
-	const isListPanel = panelKind === 'signoz/ListPanel';
-	// The builder-query `signal` literal matches the TelemetrytypesSignalDTO enum
-	// values; cast at this boundary (as ConfigPane does) so the columns editor's
-	// field-key lookup is typed.
-	const listSignal =
-		(getBuilderQueries(spec.queries)[0]?.signal as TelemetrytypesSignalDTO) ||
-		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.logs;
-
-	// Swap the List panel's columns to the new signal's defaults on signal change
-	// (V1 had a per-signal field list; V2 has one `selectFields`).
-	useSwitchColumnsOnSignalChange({
-		enabled: isListPanel,
-		signal: listSignal,
-		spec,
-		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
-	});
-
-	// Seed a new List panel's columns from the query's resolved signal (not the kind's
-	// default logs signal) so a traces-List export gets traces columns, not logs.
-	useSeedNewListColumns({
-		enabled: isNew && isListPanel,
-		signal: listSignal,
-		spec,
-		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
-	});
-
-	// Drag-to-zoom on the preview updates the URL-synced time window, as on the dashboard.
-	const { onDragSelect } = usePanelInteractions();
-	const legendSeries = useLegendSeries(draft, data);
-	const tableColumns = useTableColumns(draft, data);
-
-	// Resolves the selected metric's unit and, on a new panel, seeds it into the right
-	// formatting field for the kind (panel-wide `unit`, or per-column `columnUnits` for
-	// a Table once results resolve them). `metricUnit` also drives the mismatch warning.
-	const { metricUnit } = useSeedMetricUnit({
-		isNewPanel: isNew,
-		formattingControls,
-		columns: tableColumns,
-		spec,
-		onChangeSpec: setSpec,
-	});
-
-	// Smallest query step interval (seconds) — the floor for the span-gaps
-	// threshold. Undefined until results carry step metadata.
-	const stepInterval = useMemo((): number | undefined => {
-		const intervals = getExecStats(data.response)?.stepIntervals;
-		const values = intervals ? Object.values(intervals) : [];
-		return values.length ? Math.min(...values) : undefined;
-	}, [data.response]);
-
-	const onSwitchToView = useSwitchToViewMode({
-		dashboardId,
-		panelId,
+	const { onChangePanelKind } = usePanelTypeSwitch({
+		spec: draftApi.draft.spec,
 		panelType: PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[panelKind],
-		query: currentQuery,
-		spec: draft.spec,
+		setSpec: draftApi.setSpec,
 	});
 
-	const setScrollTargetId = useScrollIntoViewStore((s) => s.setScrollTargetId);
-	const { showErrorModal } = useErrorModal();
-
-	const onSave = useCallback(async (): Promise<void> => {
-		if (!isEditable) {
-			return;
-		}
-		try {
-			// Bake the live query into the spec so unstaged edits are saved too.
-			const savedPanelId = await save(buildSaveSpec(draft.spec));
-			// Reveal the saved panel once the dashboard re-renders.
-			setScrollTargetId(savedPanelId);
-			toast.success('Panel saved', {
-				position: 'top-center',
-			});
-			onSaved();
-		} catch (err) {
-			showErrorModal(err);
-		}
-	}, [
-		isEditable,
-		save,
-		buildSaveSpec,
-		draft.spec,
-		setScrollTargetId,
-		onSaved,
-		showErrorModal,
-	]);
-
-	// Leaving an existing panel's editor (without saving) still returns to it, so
-	// the dashboard lands on that panel rather than scrolled to the top. A new,
-	// unsaved panel has no persisted target, so there's nothing to reveal.
-	const onCloseEditor = useCallback((): void => {
-		if (!isNew) {
-			setScrollTargetId(panelId);
-		}
-		onClose();
-	}, [isNew, panelId, setScrollTargetId, onClose]);
-
-	const switchToViewMode = useCallback((): void => {
-		logEvent(DashboardEvents.SWITCH_TO_VIEW_MODE, {
-			panelId: panelId,
-		});
-		onSwitchToView();
-	}, [onSwitchToView]);
+	if (panelDefinition.mode === 'static') {
+		return (
+			<StaticEditorBody
+				{...props}
+				draftApi={draftApi}
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+			/>
+		);
+	}
 
 	return (
-		<div className={styles.page} data-testid="panel-editor-v2">
-			<Header
-				isDirty={isDirty}
-				isSaving={isSaving}
-				showSwitchToView={!isNew}
-				readOnly={!isEditable}
-				readOnlyReason={editDisabledReason}
-				onSave={onSave}
-				onSwitchToView={switchToViewMode}
-				onClose={onCloseEditor}
-			/>
-			<ResizablePanelGroup
-				id="panel-editor-v2"
-				orientation="horizontal"
-				defaultLayout={defaultLayout}
-				onLayoutChanged={onLayoutChanged}
-			>
-				<ResizablePanel minSize="75%" maxSize="80%" defaultSize="80%">
-					<div className={styles.left}>
-						<ResizablePanelGroup
-							id="panel-editor-v2-main"
-							orientation="vertical"
-							defaultLayout={mainDefaultLayout}
-							onLayoutChanged={onMainLayoutChanged}
-						>
-							<ResizablePanel minSize="55%" maxSize="65%" defaultSize="60%">
-								{panelDefinition && (
-									<PreviewPane
-										panelId={panelId}
-										panel={draft}
-										panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
-										data={data}
-										isFetching={isFetching}
-										isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
-										error={error}
-										refetch={refetch}
-										onDragSelect={onDragSelect}
-										pagination={pagination}
-									/>
-								)}
-							</ResizablePanel>
-							<ResizableHandle withHandle className={styles.handle} />
-							<ResizablePanel minSize="35%" maxSize="45%" defaultSize="40%">
-								<ConfigProvider getPopupContainer={getBodyPopupContainer}>
-									<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
-										panelKind={panelKind}
-										signal={listSignal}
-										isLoadingQueries={isFetching}
-										onStageRunQuery={runQuery}
-										onCancelQuery={cancelQuery}
-										footer={
-											isListPanel ? (
-												<ListColumnsEditor
-													spec={spec}
-													onChangeSpec={setSpec}
-													signal={listSignal}
-												/>
-											) : undefined
-										}
-									/>
-								</ConfigProvider>
-							</ResizablePanel>
-						</ResizablePanelGroup>
-					</div>
-				</ResizablePanel>
-				<ResizableHandle withHandle className={styles.handle} />
-				<ResizablePanel
-					minSize="20%"
-					maxSize="25%"
-					defaultSize="20%"
-					className={styles.right}
-				>
-					<ConfigPane
-						panel={draft}
-						panelId={panelId}
-						spec={spec}
-						onChangeSpec={setSpec}
-						onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
-						queryType={currentQuery.queryType}
-						legendSeries={legendSeries}
-						tableColumns={tableColumns}
-						stepInterval={stepInterval}
-						metricUnit={metricUnit}
-					/>
-				</ResizablePanel>
-			</ResizablePanelGroup>
-		</div>
+		<QueryEditorBody
+			{...props}
+			draftApi={draftApi}
+			panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+			onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+		/>
 	);
 }
 

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/__tests__/capabilities.test.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import type { PanelQueryCapabilities } from '../types/panelCapabilities';
 import { NO_PANEL_ACTIONS } from '../types/panelDefinition';
 import {
 	getHiddenQueryBuilderFields,
+	getQueryPanelDefinition,
+	requireQueryPanelDefinition,
 	getSupportedQueryTypes,
 	getSupportedSignals,
 	isPanelCombinationValid,
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ const ALL_KINDS = Object.keys(EXPECTED_QUERY_TYPES) as PanelKind[];
 describe('panel capabilities guard', () => {
 	describe('query capabilities', () => {
 		it.each(ALL_KINDS)('declares how %s shapes its request', (kind) => {
-			expect(getPanelDefinition(kind).queryCapabilities).toStrictEqual(
+			expect(getQueryPanelDefinition(kind)?.queryCapabilities).toStrictEqual(
 				EXPECTED_QUERY_CAPABILITIES[kind],
 			);
 		});
@@ -149,7 +151,8 @@ describe('panel capabilities guard', () => {
 		});
 
 		it('carries an inert query shape, so a stray request can do no harm', () => {
-			const { queryCapabilities } = getPanelDefinition(unknownKind);
+			const queryCapabilities = requireQueryPanelDefinition(unknownKind)
+				.queryCapabilities;
 			expect(queryCapabilities.requestType).toBe(time_series);
 			expect(queryCapabilities.serverPaginated).toBe(false);
 			expect(queryCapabilities.formatTableResultForUI).toBe(false);

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ import type { TelemetrytypesSignalDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.sche
 import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
 import { getPanelDefinition } from './registry';
-import type { FilterConfigsPartial } from './types/panelCapabilities';
+import {
+	mergeQueryBuilderFieldRule,
+	type FilterConfigsPartial,
+} from './types/panelCapabilities';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from './types/panelDefinition';
 import type { PanelKind } from './types/panelKind';
 
 /**
@@ -13,11 +17,46 @@ import type { PanelKind } from './types/panelKind';
  * these functions then cover it automatically. Pure and side-effect free.
  */
 
+/** Renders from its own plugin spec — no query surface at all. */
+export function isQuerylessPanelKind(kind: PanelKind): boolean {
+	return getPanelDefinition(kind).mode === 'static';
+}
+
+/**
+ * The kind's definition narrowed to the query arm, or null for a static kind.
+ * The null is what hosts fork on; the accessors below fold it into "supports
+ * nothing" for the guard questions.
+ */
+export function getQueryPanelDefinition(
+	kind: PanelKind,
+): RenderableQueryPanelDefinition | null {
+	const definition = getPanelDefinition(kind);
+	return definition.mode === 'query' ? definition : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The query arm, asserted present. For call sites that a host mounts only after
+ * narrowing `mode === 'query'` but that read the definition by kind rather than
+ * receiving it as a prop — the throw makes that invariant executable instead of
+ * silently null-tolerant.
+ */
+export function requireQueryPanelDefinition(
+	kind: PanelKind,
+): RenderableQueryPanelDefinition {
+	const definition = getQueryPanelDefinition(kind);
+	if (!definition) {
+		throw new Error(
+			`query machinery mounted for query-less panel kind ${kind} — the host must fork on definition.mode before this point`,
+		);
+	}
+	return definition;
+}
+
 /** Signals a kind can visualize. */
 export function getSupportedSignals(
 	kind: PanelKind,
 ): TelemetrytypesSignalDTO[] {
-	return getPanelDefinition(kind).supportedSignals;
+	return getQueryPanelDefinition(kind)?.supportedSignals ?? [];
 }
 
 export function isSignalSupported(
@@ -29,7 +68,7 @@ export function isSignalSupported(
 
 /** Query languages a kind supports (Query Builder / ClickHouse / PromQL). */
 export function getSupportedQueryTypes(kind: PanelKind): EQueryType[] {
-	return getPanelDefinition(kind).supportedQueryTypes;
+	return getQueryPanelDefinition(kind)?.supportedQueryTypes ?? [];
 }
 
 export function isQueryTypeSupportedByPanelKind(
@@ -53,6 +92,10 @@ export function isPanelCombinationValid({
 	queryType: EQueryType;
 	signal?: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO;
 }): boolean {
+	// A query-less kind ignores the query entirely, so it pairs with anything.
+	if (isQuerylessPanelKind(kind)) {
+		return true;
+	}
 	if (!isQueryTypeSupportedByPanelKind(kind, queryType)) {
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -73,7 +116,11 @@ export function resolveQueryType(
 	preferred: EQueryType,
 ): EQueryType {
 	const supported = getSupportedQueryTypes(kind);
-	return supported.includes(preferred) ? preferred : supported[0];
+	if (supported.includes(preferred)) {
+		return preferred;
+	}
+	// A query-less kind has no supported types; the builder is the neutral answer.
+	return supported[0] ?? EQueryType.QUERY_BUILDER;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -85,7 +132,6 @@ export function getHiddenQueryBuilderFields(
 	kind: PanelKind,
 	signal: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
 ): FilterConfigsPartial {
-	const rule = getPanelDefinition(kind).queryBuilderFields;
-	const perSignal = signal ? rule[signal] : undefined;
-	return { ...rule.default, ...perSignal };
+	const rule = getQueryPanelDefinition(kind)?.queryBuilderFields ?? {};
+	return mergeQueryBuilderFieldRule(rule, signal);
 }

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/BarChartPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { BarChart } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/BarChartPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/BarChartPanel',
 	displayName: 'Bar Chart',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: BarChart,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/HistogramPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { BarChart } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/HistogramPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/HistogramPanel',
 	displayName: 'Histogram',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: BarChart,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/ListPanel/ListEditorPane.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import type { QueryEditorPaneProps } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import ListColumnsEditor from '../../../PanelEditor/ListColumnsEditor/ListColumnsEditor';
+import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from '../../../PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
+
+/**
+ * List's editor pane: the query builder with the columns editor pinned below it.
+ * Declared here so no editor host carries a List special case.
+ */
+function ListEditorPane({
+	panelDefinition,
+	signal,
+	isLoadingQueries,
+	onStageRunQuery,
+	onCancelQuery,
+	stickyHeader,
+	spec,
+	onChangeSpec,
+}: QueryEditorPaneProps): JSX.Element {
+	return (
+		<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
+			panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+			signal={signal}
+			isLoadingQueries={isLoadingQueries}
+			onStageRunQuery={onStageRunQuery}
+			onCancelQuery={onCancelQuery}
+			stickyHeader={stickyHeader}
+			footer={
+				<ListColumnsEditor spec={spec} onChangeSpec={onChangeSpec} signal={signal} />
+			}
+		/>
+	);
+}
+
+export default ListEditorPane;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/ListPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { List } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import ListEditorPane from './ListEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -13,8 +14,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/ListPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/ListPanel',
 	displayName: 'List',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: List,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: ListEditorPane,
 	// Raw records come from logs and traces; metrics don't produce row data.
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.logs,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/NumberPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Hash } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/NumberPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/NumberPanel',
 	displayName: 'Number',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: Hash,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/PieChartPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { ChartPie } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/PieChartPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/PieChartPanel',
 	displayName: 'Pie Chart',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: ChartPie,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/TablePanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Table } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/TablePanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/TablePanel',
 	displayName: 'Table',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: Table,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/TimeSeriesPanel/definition.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { ChartLine } from '@signozhq/icons';
 
 import type { PanelDefinition } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 import { sections } from './sections';
 import {
@@ -12,8 +13,10 @@ import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 export const definition: PanelDefinition<'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel'> = {
 	kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel',
 	displayName: 'Time Series',
+	mode: 'query',
 	icon: ChartLine,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections,
 	supportedSignals: [
 		TelemetrytypesSignalDTO.metrics,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/kinds/UnsupportedPanel/definition.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
 	NO_PANEL_ACTIONS,
 	type RenderablePanelDefinition,
 } from '../../types/panelDefinition';
+import QueryBuilderEditorPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/QueryBuilderEditorPane';
 import Renderer from './Renderer';
 
 /**
@@ -19,9 +20,11 @@ import Renderer from './Renderer';
 export const UNSUPPORTED_PANEL: RenderablePanelDefinition = {
 	kind: '<unsupported>' as RenderablePanelDefinition['kind'],
 	displayName: 'Unsupported panel',
+	mode: 'query',
 	// Never offered in the UI — the kind lists come from the registry, which omits this.
 	icon: TriangleAlert,
 	Renderer,
+	EditorPane: QueryBuilderEditorPane,
 	sections: [],
 	supportedSignals: [],
 	supportedQueryTypes: [],

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelCapabilities.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ export type QueryBuilderFieldRule = {
 	default?: FilterConfigsPartial;
 } & Partial<Record<TelemetrytypesSignalDTO, FilterConfigsPartial>>;
 
+/** The kind's `default` rule with its per-signal overrides merged over it (signal wins). */
+export function mergeQueryBuilderFieldRule(
+	rule: QueryBuilderFieldRule,
+	signal: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
+): FilterConfigsPartial {
+	const perSignal = signal ? rule[signal] : undefined;
+	return { ...rule.default, ...perSignal };
+}
+
 /**
  * How a kind's query-range request is shaped. Declared per-kind in
  * `kinds/<Kind>/definition.ts` and read through the capabilities guard, so no V2 code

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import type { ComponentType } from 'react';
-import { TelemetrytypesSignalDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import {
+	type DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO,
+	TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
+} from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import type { ChartLine } from '@signozhq/icons';
 import type { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
@@ -10,7 +13,11 @@ import type {
 	PanelQueryCapabilities,
 	QueryBuilderFieldRule,
 } from './panelCapabilities';
-import type { BaseRendererProps, PanelRendererProps } from './rendererProps';
+import type {
+	BaseRendererProps,
+	PanelRendererProps,
+	StaticRendererProps,
+} from './rendererProps';
 
 /** Export formats offered under the single "Download" action. */
 export enum DownloadFormat {
@@ -65,12 +72,49 @@ export const NO_PANEL_ACTIONS: PanelActionCapabilities = {
 // IconSize union) and ForwardRef-compatible.
 export type PanelIcon = typeof ChartLine;
 
-export interface PanelDefinition<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> {
+export interface PanelDefinitionBase<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> {
 	kind: K;
 	displayName: string;
 	icon: PanelIcon;
-	Renderer: ComponentType<PanelRendererProps<K>>;
 	sections: SectionConfig[];
+	actions: PanelActionCapabilities;
+}
+
+/** Props for a static kind's authoring pane — rendered where the query builder sits. */
+export interface StaticEditorPaneProps {
+	spec: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO;
+	onChangeSpec: (spec: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Props for a query kind's authoring pane (the editor's lower-left slot). Spec
+ * read/write is included so a kind's pane can edit its own spec slices (the List
+ * columns editor) without the host carrying per-kind conditionals.
+ */
+export interface QueryEditorPaneProps {
+	/** The kind's definition, narrowed by the host's fork. */
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
+	signal: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO;
+	isLoadingQueries: boolean;
+	onStageRunQuery: () => void;
+	onCancelQuery: () => void;
+	/** Pin the tabs row to the pane top; the View modal opts out. */
+	stickyHeader?: boolean;
+	spec: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO;
+	onChangeSpec: (spec: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A kind that renders from a query. Declares its whole query surface here, so a
+ * kind without one carries no query declarations at all — no dummy capabilities,
+ * no empty signal lists standing in for "not applicable".
+ */
+export interface QueryPanelDefinition<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind>
+	extends PanelDefinitionBase<K> {
+	mode: 'query';
+	Renderer: ComponentType<PanelRendererProps<K>>;
+	/** Lower editor pane — the shared query-builder pane, or a kind wrapper of it. */
+	EditorPane: ComponentType<QueryEditorPaneProps>;
 	/** Signals this kind can visualize. */
 	supportedSignals: TelemetrytypesSignalDTO[];
 	/** Query languages this kind supports (Query Builder / ClickHouse / PromQL). */
@@ -79,16 +123,38 @@ export interface PanelDefinition<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> {
 	queryBuilderFields: QueryBuilderFieldRule;
 	/** How this kind's query-range request is shaped (request type, paging, result formatting). */
 	queryCapabilities: PanelQueryCapabilities;
-	actions: PanelActionCapabilities;
 }
 
+/**
+ * A kind that renders from its own plugin spec and saves with `queries: []` (the
+ * API rejects anything else). Its renderer takes no query data, and its editor
+ * pane replaces the query builder (TDD D8). No query machinery mounts for it
+ * anywhere — every host forks on `mode` before touching a query hook.
+ */
+export interface StaticPanelDefinition<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind>
+	extends PanelDefinitionBase<K> {
+	mode: 'static';
+	Renderer: ComponentType<StaticRendererProps<K>>;
+	EditorPane: ComponentType<StaticEditorPaneProps>;
+}
+
+export type PanelDefinition<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> =
+	| QueryPanelDefinition<K>
+	| StaticPanelDefinition<K>;
+
 // Every kind must be registered, so getPanelDefinition never returns undefined.
 export type PanelRegistry = { [K in PanelKind]: PanelDefinition<K> };
 
-// PanelDefinition with its Renderer widened to the kind-agnostic prop surface.
-export interface RenderablePanelDefinition extends Omit<
-	PanelDefinition,
+// The arms with their Renderer widened to the kind-agnostic prop surface. Declared
+// explicitly rather than via `Omit` over the union, which collapses to common keys.
+export interface RenderableQueryPanelDefinition extends Omit<
+	QueryPanelDefinition,
 	'Renderer'
 > {
 	Renderer: ComponentType<BaseRendererProps & AnyPanelInteractionProps>;
 }
+export type RenderableStaticPanelDefinition = StaticPanelDefinition<PanelKind>;
+
+export type RenderablePanelDefinition =
+	| RenderableQueryPanelDefinition
+	| RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps.ts

@@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ export type PanelOfKind<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> = Omit<
 	};
 };
 
+/**
+ * Props a static (query-less) renderer receives: its panel and render context,
+ * nothing of the fetch lifecycle. `dashboardId` scopes store reads (resolved
+ * variables); the editor route seeds the same store, so previews of an unsaved
+ * panel resolve variables the way the grid does.
+ */
+export interface StaticRendererProps<K extends PanelKind = PanelKind> {
+	panelId: string;
+	panel: PanelOfKind<K>;
+	panelMode: PanelMode;
+	dashboardId?: string;
+}
+
 // Renderer props for kind K: the base (with `panel` narrowed to K) plus K's
 // interaction surface (PanelInteractionMap[K]), so a renderer sees its exact spec
 // and only the gestures it supports. The default K = PanelKind is the widest surface.

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getPanelBuilderQuery.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schem
 import { initialQueriesMap } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
 import type { Query } from 'types/api/queryBuilder/queryBuilderData';
 
-import { getPanelDefinition } from '../registry';
+import { getQueryPanelDefinition } from '../capabilities';
 import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from '../types/panelKind';
 import { fromPerses } from '../../queryV5/persesQueryAdapters';
 
@@ -10,10 +10,19 @@ import { fromPerses } from '../../queryV5/persesQueryAdapters';
  * The panel's saved query as a builder `Query` — what the editor route and the View
  * modal put in `compositeQuery` when they open. Matches the seed
  * `usePanelEditorQuerySync` computes from the panel.
+ *
+ * `null` for a kind that renders from its own spec: there is no query to stage, and
+ * callers skip the `compositeQuery` param entirely rather than asking about the kind.
  */
-export function getPanelBuilderQuery(panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO): Query {
+export function getPanelBuilderQuery(
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO,
+): Query | null {
 	const kind = panel.spec.plugin.kind;
-	const [defaultSignal] = getPanelDefinition(kind).supportedSignals;
+	const definition = getQueryPanelDefinition(kind);
+	if (!definition) {
+		return null;
+	}
+	const [defaultSignal] = definition.supportedSignals;
 	// A query-less panel seeds from the kind's first supported signal — `fromPerses`'s
 	// metrics default isn't authorable in every kind (e.g. List).
 	if (panel.spec.queries.length === 0 && defaultSignal) {

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/Panel.tsx

@@ -1,22 +1,9 @@
-import { useState } from 'react';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
-import ContextMenu from 'periscope/components/ContextMenu';
-import {
-	getPanelDefinition,
-	isPanelKindSupported,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
-import {
-	getPanelTimePreference,
-	panelTimePreferenceLabel,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/resolvePanelTimeWindow';
-import { usePanelQuery } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery';
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
 
 import type { DashboardSection } from '../../utils';
-import { useDrilldown } from './hooks/useDrilldown';
-import { usePanelInteractions } from './hooks/usePanelInteractions';
-import PanelBody from './PanelBody/PanelBody';
-import PanelHeader from './PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
-import styles from './Panel.module.scss';
+import QueryPanel from './QueryPanel';
+import StaticPanel from './StaticPanel';
 
 /**
  * Layout context for the panel actions menu — present only in editable mode. No
@@ -37,8 +24,8 @@ interface PanelProps {
 }
 
 /**
- * A single dashboard panel (header + body). Thin orchestrator: fetching lives in
- * `usePanelQuery`, interactions in `usePanelInteractions`, state in `PanelBody`.
+ * A single dashboard panel. Forks on the kind's mode before any query machinery
+ * exists, so a static kind never mounts a fetch — not even a disabled one.
  */
 function Panel({
 	panel,
@@ -46,74 +33,28 @@ function Panel({
 	isVisible,
 	panelActions,
 }: PanelProps): JSX.Element {
-	const timeLabel = panelTimePreferenceLabel(getPanelTimePreference(panel));
+	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(panel.spec.plugin.kind);
 
-	const panelKind = panel.spec.plugin.kind;
-	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(panelKind);
-
-	// Header search: only kinds that declare it render the box. The term is owned
-	// here and threaded to both the header (input) and renderer (filter).
-	const searchable = panelDefinition.actions.search;
-	const [searchTerm, setSearchTerm] = useState('');
-
-	// Only an explicit false defers the fetch: `isVisible` is undefined wherever no
-	// observer reports visibility (the View modal, the editor preview), and those panels
-	// are on screen by construction.
-	const isOffScreen = isVisible === false;
-
-	const { data, isFetching, isPreviousData, error, refetch, pagination } =
-		usePanelQuery({
-			panel,
-			panelId,
-			queryCapabilities: panelDefinition.queryCapabilities,
-			// Lazy: fetch once on screen, and never for a kind this build can't render —
-			// the data would have nothing to render into.
-			enabled: isPanelKindSupported(panelKind) && !isOffScreen,
-		});
-
-	const { onDragSelect, dashboardPreference } = usePanelInteractions();
-	const drilldown = useDrilldown(panel, panelId);
+	if (panelDefinition.mode === 'static') {
+		return (
+			<StaticPanel
+				panel={panel}
+				panelId={panelId}
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				isVisible={isVisible}
+				panelActions={panelActions}
+			/>
+		);
+	}
 
 	return (
-		<div
-			className={styles.panel}
-			data-panel-visible={isOffScreen ? 'false' : 'true'}
-			// Stable locator so the "Download as PNG" action can find this node to
-			// capture, without threading a ref through the header/actions chain.
-			data-panel-root={panelId}
-		>
-			<PanelHeader
-				panelId={panelId}
-				panel={panel}
-				data={data}
-				isFetching={isFetching}
-				error={error}
-				warning={data.response?.data?.warning}
-				timeLabel={timeLabel}
-				panelActions={panelActions}
-				searchable={searchable}
-				searchTerm={searchTerm}
-				onSearchChange={setSearchTerm}
-			/>
-			<PanelBody
-				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
-				panel={panel}
-				panelId={panelId}
-				data={data}
-				isFetching={isFetching}
-				isVisible={isVisible}
-				isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
-				error={error}
-				refetch={refetch}
-				onDragSelect={onDragSelect}
-				dashboardPreference={dashboardPreference}
-				searchTerm={searchable ? searchTerm : undefined}
-				pagination={pagination}
-				onClick={drilldown.onPanelClick}
-				enableDrillDown={drilldown.enableDrillDown}
-			/>
-			<ContextMenu {...drilldown.contextMenuProps} />
-		</div>
+		<QueryPanel
+			panel={panel}
+			panelId={panelId}
+			panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+			isVisible={isVisible}
+			panelActions={panelActions}
+		/>
 	);
 }
 

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelBody/PanelBody.tsx

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
+import type { ComponentType } from 'react';
 import { RotateCw, SquarePlus, TriangleAlert } from '@signozhq/icons';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
 import PanelLoader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/components/PanelLoader/PanelLoader';
 import PanelMessage from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/components/PanelMessage/PanelMessage';
 import type { AnyPanelInteractionProps } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/interactions';
-import type { RenderablePanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
-import type { DashboardPreference } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
+import type {
+	BaseRendererProps,
+	DashboardPreference,
+} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
 import { hasRunnableQueries } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/buildQueryRangeRequest';
 import { getResponseType } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/v5ResponseData';
 import type {
@@ -17,8 +20,8 @@ import { panelStatusFromError } from '../PanelStatus/utils';
 import styles from './PanelBody.module.scss';
 
 interface PanelBodyProps {
-	/** Resolved renderer for the panel kind (`Panel` handles the unsupported case). */
-	panelDefinition: RenderablePanelDefinition;
+	/** The query arm's renderer — hosts narrow `mode === 'query'` before this mounts. */
+	Renderer: ComponentType<BaseRendererProps & AnyPanelInteractionProps>;
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
 	panelId: string;
 	data: PanelQueryData;
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ interface PanelBodyProps {
  * first-load / renderer. The renderer keeps stale data mounted across refetches.
  */
 function PanelBody({
-	panelDefinition,
+	Renderer,
 	panel,
 	panelId,
 	data,
@@ -116,7 +119,7 @@ function PanelBody({
 
 	return (
 		<div className={styles.panelContainer}>
-			<panelDefinition.Renderer
+			<Renderer
 				panelId={panelId}
 				panel={panel}
 				data={data}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelBody/__tests__/PanelBody.test.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
-import type { RenderablePanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
 import type { PanelQueryData } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
 
 import PanelBody from '../PanelBody';
@@ -8,10 +7,6 @@ import PanelBody from '../PanelBody';
 // Stub the renderer so these tests focus on PanelBody's state machine.
 const MockRenderer = (): JSX.Element => <div data-testid="mock-renderer" />;
 
-const panelDefinition = {
-	Renderer: MockRenderer,
-} as unknown as RenderablePanelDefinition;
-
 function panelWith(queries: unknown[]): DashboardtypesPanelDTO {
 	return {
 		kind: 'Panel',
@@ -24,7 +19,7 @@ function panelWith(queries: unknown[]): DashboardtypesPanelDTO {
 }
 
 const baseProps = {
-	panelDefinition,
+	Renderer: MockRenderer,
 	panelId: 'p1',
 	data: {} as PanelQueryData,
 	isFetching: false,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/QueryPanel.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import { useState } from 'react';
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import ContextMenu from 'periscope/components/ContextMenu';
+import { isPanelKindSupported } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import {
+	getPanelTimePreference,
+	panelTimePreferenceLabel,
+} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/resolvePanelTimeWindow';
+import { usePanelQuery } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery';
+
+import type { PanelActionsConfig } from './Panel';
+import { useDrilldown } from './hooks/useDrilldown';
+import { usePanelInteractions } from './hooks/usePanelInteractions';
+import PanelBody from './PanelBody/PanelBody';
+import PanelHeader from './PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
+import styles from './Panel.module.scss';
+
+interface QueryPanelProps {
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	panelId: string;
+	/** The kind's definition, narrowed to the query arm by `Panel`'s fork. */
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
+	/** True once this panel enters the viewport — gates the fetch (owned by SectionGridItem). */
+	isVisible?: boolean;
+	/** Move/delete actions — present only in editable sectioned mode. */
+	panelActions?: PanelActionsConfig;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A query-backed dashboard panel (header + body). Thin orchestrator: fetching
+ * lives in `usePanelQuery`, interactions in `usePanelInteractions`, state in
+ * `PanelBody`.
+ */
+function QueryPanel({
+	panel,
+	panelId,
+	panelDefinition,
+	isVisible,
+	panelActions,
+}: QueryPanelProps): JSX.Element {
+	const timeLabel = panelTimePreferenceLabel(getPanelTimePreference(panel));
+
+	const panelKind = panel.spec.plugin.kind;
+
+	// Header search: only kinds that declare it render the box. The term is owned
+	// here and threaded to both the header (input) and renderer (filter).
+	const searchable = panelDefinition.actions.search;
+	const [searchTerm, setSearchTerm] = useState('');
+
+	// Only an explicit false defers the fetch: `isVisible` is undefined wherever no
+	// observer reports visibility (the View modal, the editor preview), and those panels
+	// are on screen by construction.
+	const isOffScreen = isVisible === false;
+
+	const { data, isFetching, isPreviousData, error, refetch, pagination } =
+		usePanelQuery({
+			panel,
+			panelId,
+			queryCapabilities: panelDefinition.queryCapabilities,
+			// Lazy: fetch once on screen, and never for a kind this build can't render —
+			// the data would have nothing to render into.
+			enabled: isPanelKindSupported(panelKind) && !isOffScreen,
+		});
+
+	const { onDragSelect, dashboardPreference } = usePanelInteractions();
+	const drilldown = useDrilldown(panel, panelId);
+
+	return (
+		<div
+			className={styles.panel}
+			data-panel-visible={isOffScreen ? 'false' : 'true'}
+			// Stable locator so the "Download as PNG" action can find this node to
+			// capture, without threading a ref through the header/actions chain.
+			data-panel-root={panelId}
+		>
+			<PanelHeader
+				panelId={panelId}
+				panel={panel}
+				data={data}
+				isFetching={isFetching}
+				error={error}
+				warning={data.response?.data?.warning}
+				timeLabel={timeLabel}
+				panelActions={panelActions}
+				searchable={searchable}
+				searchTerm={searchTerm}
+				onSearchChange={setSearchTerm}
+			/>
+			<PanelBody
+				Renderer={panelDefinition.Renderer}
+				panel={panel}
+				panelId={panelId}
+				data={data}
+				isFetching={isFetching}
+				isVisible={isVisible}
+				isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
+				error={error}
+				refetch={refetch}
+				onDragSelect={onDragSelect}
+				dashboardPreference={dashboardPreference}
+				searchTerm={searchable ? searchTerm : undefined}
+				pagination={pagination}
+				onClick={drilldown.onPanelClick}
+				enableDrillDown={drilldown.enableDrillDown}
+			/>
+			<ContextMenu {...drilldown.contextMenuProps} />
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default QueryPanel;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanel.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import type { RenderableStaticPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import { EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
+
+import type { PanelActionsConfig } from './Panel';
+import PanelHeader from './PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
+import StaticPanelBody from './StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody';
+import styles from './Panel.module.scss';
+
+interface StaticPanelProps {
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	panelId: string;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;
+	isVisible?: boolean;
+	panelActions?: PanelActionsConfig;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A dashboard panel that renders from its own plugin spec: chrome plus the static
+ * body. No fetch, no status indicators, no time preference, no drilldown — none
+ * of that exists without a query.
+ */
+function StaticPanel({
+	panel,
+	panelId,
+	panelDefinition,
+	isVisible,
+	panelActions,
+}: StaticPanelProps): JSX.Element {
+	return (
+		<div
+			className={styles.panel}
+			data-panel-visible={isVisible ? 'true' : 'false'}
+			// Stable locator, as on QueryPanel — actions that capture the panel node
+			// (and tests) address it the same way for both arms.
+			data-panel-root={panelId}
+		>
+			<PanelHeader
+				panelId={panelId}
+				panel={panel}
+				data={EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA}
+				isFetching={false}
+				error={null}
+				timeLabel={null}
+				panelActions={panelActions}
+			/>
+			<StaticPanelBody
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				panel={panel}
+				panelId={panelId}
+			/>
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default StaticPanel;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody.module.scss

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.body {
+	height: 100%;
+	min-height: 0;
+	overflow: hidden;
+}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
+import type { RenderableStaticPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import type { PanelOfKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
+import { useDashboardStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useDashboardStore';
+
+import styles from './StaticPanelBody.module.scss';
+
+interface StaticPanelBodyProps {
+	panelDefinition: RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	panelId: string;
+	/** Render context — defaults to the dashboard view; the editor preview passes EDIT. */
+	panelMode?: PanelMode;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Body for a kind that renders from its own plugin spec: the static renderer and
+ * nothing else — no fetch, no loading or error states. Shared by the dashboard
+ * grid, the public view and the editor preview, which is what keeps the preview
+ * live while the draft spec changes.
+ */
+function StaticPanelBody({
+	panelDefinition,
+	panel,
+	panelId,
+	panelMode = PanelMode.DASHBOARD_VIEW,
+}: StaticPanelBodyProps): JSX.Element {
+	// From the edit context, not props: the editor route seeds it too, so an
+	// unsaved panel's preview resolves variables the same way the grid does.
+	const dashboardId = useDashboardStore((s) => s.dashboardId);
+	const { Renderer } = panelDefinition;
+
+	return (
+		<div className={styles.body} data-testid="static-panel-body">
+			<Renderer
+				panelId={panelId}
+				panel={panel as PanelOfKind}
+				panelMode={panelMode}
+				dashboardId={dashboardId || undefined}
+			/>
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default StaticPanelBody;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/ViewPanelModal/QueryViewModalBody.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
+import { DashboardCursorSync } from 'lib/uPlotV2/plugins/TooltipPlugin/types';
+import ContextMenu from 'periscope/components/ContextMenu';
+import PreviewPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PreviewPane/PreviewPane';
+import type { DashboardPreference } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
+import type { PanelKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/types';
+import { useViewPanelStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useViewPanelStore';
+import { useOpenPanelEditor } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/useOpenPanelEditor';
+
+import { useDrilldown } from '../hooks/useDrilldown';
+import { usePanelInteractions } from '../hooks/usePanelInteractions';
+import ViewPanelModalHeader from './ViewPanelModalHeader';
+import { useViewPanelMode } from './useViewPanelMode';
+import { useViewPanelTimeWindow } from './useViewPanelTimeWindow';
+import styles from './ViewPanelModal.module.scss';
+import logEvent from 'api/common/logEvent';
+import {
+	DashboardDetailEvents,
+	DashboardEvents,
+} from 'pages/DashboardPage/constants/events';
+
+interface QueryViewModalBodyProps {
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	panelId: string;
+	/** Close the modal — wired to the graph manager's Save/Cancel. */
+	onClose: () => void;
+	/** Draft state, owned by the modal shell so it survives an authoring-mode switch. */
+	draftApi: PanelEditorDraftApi;
+	/** Kind switch, owned by the shell (its cache must survive the fork swap). */
+	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The query-kind View modal body: a compact drilldown editor. It renders an
+ * editable draft of the panel (preview) over a per-view time window plus the
+ * kind's editor pane, so the user can tweak + Stage & Run without touching the
+ * dashboard. Edits are temporary.
+ */
+function QueryViewModalBody({
+	panel,
+	panelId,
+	onClose,
+	draftApi,
+	onChangePanelKind,
+}: QueryViewModalBodyProps): JSX.Element | null {
+	const {
+		timeOverride,
+		selectedInterval,
+		onTimeChange,
+		refreshWindow,
+		onDragSelect,
+		extendWindow,
+	} = useViewPanelTimeWindow();
+
+	const {
+		draft,
+		setSpec,
+		panelDefinition,
+		signal,
+		queryType,
+		query,
+		runQuery,
+		resetQuery,
+		buildSaveSpec,
+		applyDrilldownQuery,
+	} = useViewPanelMode({ panel, panelId, time: timeOverride, draftApi });
+	const {
+		data,
+		isFetching,
+		isPreviousData,
+		error,
+		refetch,
+		cancelQuery,
+		pagination,
+	} = query;
+
+
+	// Grid drill-down, but filter-by-value / breakout refine this view in place. Drills the draft
+	// so it reflects in-modal edits (and the click's time range follows the per-view window).
+	const drilldown = useDrilldown(draft, panelId, {
+		openDrilldownView: applyDrilldownQuery,
+	});
+
+	// Drag-to-zoom stays inside the modal; opt the chart out of the dashboard's
+	// cursor-sync group so a drag here can't replay onto the grid panels.
+	const { dashboardPreference } = usePanelInteractions();
+	const isolatedPreference = useMemo<DashboardPreference>(
+		() => ({ ...dashboardPreference, syncMode: DashboardCursorSync.None }),
+		[dashboardPreference],
+	);
+	const openPanelEditor = useOpenPanelEditor();
+
+	// Modal drag-to-zoom is its own path (local window, not the grid's) — tag it distinctly.
+	const handleDragSelect = useCallback(
+		(start: number, end: number): void => {
+			if (Math.floor(start) !== Math.floor(end)) {
+				void logEvent(DashboardDetailEvents.PanelZoomed, {
+					context: 'viewModal',
+					panelType: draft.spec.plugin.kind,
+					panelId,
+				});
+			}
+			onDragSelect(start, end);
+		},
+		[onDragSelect, draft.spec.plugin.kind, panelId],
+	);
+
+	// Publish the modal's local extender for the nested no-data state; cleared on close.
+	const setViewPanelExtendWindow = useViewPanelStore(
+		(s) => s.setViewPanelExtendWindow,
+	);
+	useEffect(() => {
+		setViewPanelExtendWindow(extendWindow);
+		return (): void => setViewPanelExtendWindow(null);
+	}, [extendWindow, setViewPanelExtendWindow]);
+
+	// The View action only appears for registered kinds, so this is defensive.
+	if (!panelDefinition) {
+		return null;
+	}
+	const { EditorPane } = panelDefinition;
+
+	const onSwitchToEdit = (): void => {
+		// Carry the drilldown edits so the editor opens on them, not the saved panel.
+		logEvent(DashboardEvents.SWITCH_TO_EDIT_MODE, {
+			panelId: panelId,
+		});
+		openPanelEditor(panelId, {
+			handoffState: { editSpec: buildSaveSpec(draft.spec) },
+		});
+	};
+
+	return (
+		<div className={styles.content} data-testid="view-panel-modal-content">
+			<ViewPanelModalHeader
+				selectedInterval={selectedInterval}
+				startMs={timeOverride.startMs}
+				endMs={timeOverride.endMs}
+				onTimeChange={onTimeChange}
+				isFetching={isFetching}
+				onRefresh={(): void => {
+					// Relative windows re-anchor to now (new key → refetch); a fixed
+					// custom window just re-runs the same query.
+					if (selectedInterval === 'custom') {
+						refetch();
+					} else {
+						refreshWindow();
+					}
+				}}
+				onSwitchToEdit={onSwitchToEdit}
+				panelKind={draft.spec.plugin.kind}
+				queryType={queryType}
+				signal={signal}
+				onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+				onResetQuery={resetQuery}
+			/>
+			<div className={styles.queryBuilder}>
+				<EditorPane
+					panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+					signal={signal}
+					isLoadingQueries={isFetching}
+					onStageRunQuery={runQuery}
+					onCancelQuery={cancelQuery}
+					stickyHeader={false}
+					spec={draft.spec}
+					onChangeSpec={setSpec}
+				/>
+			</div>
+			<div className={styles.body}>
+				<PreviewPane
+					panelId={panelId}
+					panel={draft}
+					panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+					data={data}
+					isFetching={isFetching}
+					isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
+					error={error}
+					refetch={refetch}
+					onDragSelect={handleDragSelect}
+					pagination={pagination}
+					panelMode={PanelMode.STANDALONE_VIEW}
+					dashboardPreference={isolatedPreference}
+					onCloseStandaloneView={onClose}
+					onClick={drilldown.onPanelClick}
+					enableDrillDown={drilldown.enableDrillDown}
+					hideHeader
+				/>
+			</div>
+			<ContextMenu {...drilldown.contextMenuProps} />
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default QueryViewModalBody;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/ViewPanelModal/StaticViewModalBody.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { useCallback } from 'react';
+import { PenLine } from '@signozhq/icons';
+import { Button } from '@signozhq/ui/button';
+import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
+import logEvent from 'api/common/logEvent';
+import PanelTypeSwitcher from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/ConfigPane/PanelTypeSwitcher/PanelTypeSwitcher';
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/types';
+import PanelHeader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
+import StaticPanelBody from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody';
+import type { RenderableStaticPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import type { PanelKind } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
+import { useOpenPanelEditor } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/useOpenPanelEditor';
+import { DashboardEvents } from 'pages/DashboardPage/constants/events';
+import { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
+
+import styles from './ViewPanelModal.module.scss';
+
+interface StaticViewModalBodyProps {
+	panelId: string;
+	draftApi: PanelEditorDraftApi;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;
+	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The static-kind View modal body: the panel rendered live over the kind's
+ * editor pane — the same layout idea as the query body, with the time window,
+ * query builder and drilldown machinery absent because none of it applies.
+ * Edits are temporary; "Edit panel" hands them to the full editor.
+ */
+function StaticViewModalBody({
+	panelId,
+	draftApi,
+	panelDefinition,
+	onChangePanelKind,
+}: StaticViewModalBodyProps): JSX.Element {
+	const { draft, spec, setSpec } = draftApi;
+	const { EditorPane } = panelDefinition;
+	const openPanelEditor = useOpenPanelEditor();
+
+	const onSwitchToEdit = useCallback((): void => {
+		void logEvent(DashboardEvents.SWITCH_TO_EDIT_MODE, { panelId });
+		// Carry the in-modal edits so the editor opens on them, not the saved panel.
+		openPanelEditor(panelId, {
+			handoffState: { editSpec: { ...draft.spec, queries: [] } },
+		});
+	}, [openPanelEditor, panelId, draft.spec]);
+
+	return (
+		<div className={styles.content} data-testid="view-panel-modal-content">
+			<div className={styles.staticToolbar}>
+				<PanelTypeSwitcher
+					panelKind={draft.spec.plugin.kind}
+					queryType={EQueryType.QUERY_BUILDER}
+					onChange={onChangePanelKind}
+				/>
+				<Button
+					type="button"
+					variant="outlined"
+					color="secondary"
+					size="sm"
+					prefix={<PenLine size={14} />}
+					onClick={onSwitchToEdit}
+					data-testid="static-view-switch-to-edit"
+				>
+					Edit panel
+				</Button>
+			</div>
+			<div className={styles.staticPreview}>
+				<PanelHeader
+					panelId={panelId}
+					panel={draft}
+					data={EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA}
+					isFetching={false}
+					error={null}
+					hideActions
+				/>
+				<StaticPanelBody
+					panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+					panel={draft}
+					panelId={panelId}
+					panelMode={PanelMode.STANDALONE_VIEW}
+				/>
+			</div>
+			<div className={styles.staticEditorPane}>
+				<EditorPane spec={spec} onChangeSpec={setSpec} />
+			</div>
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default StaticViewModalBody;

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/ViewPanelModal/ViewPanelModal.module.scss

@@ -60,3 +60,29 @@
 .panelTypeSelector {
 	width: 240px;
 }
+
+// Static-kind modal body: toolbar, live panel, editor pane.
+.staticToolbar {
+	display: flex;
+	align-items: center;
+	justify-content: space-between;
+	gap: 12px;
+	padding: 8px 0;
+}
+
+.staticPreview {
+	display: flex;
+	flex-direction: column;
+	flex: 1 1 55%;
+	min-height: 0;
+	border: 1px solid var(--l2-border);
+	border-radius: 4px;
+	background: var(--l2-background);
+	overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.staticEditorPane {
+	flex: 1 1 45%;
+	min-height: 0;
+	margin-top: 12px;
+}

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/ViewPanelModal/ViewPanelModalContent.tsx

@@ -1,26 +1,22 @@
-import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
-import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
-import { PanelMode } from 'lib/visualization/panels/types';
-import { DashboardCursorSync } from 'lib/uPlotV2/plugins/TooltipPlugin/types';
-import ContextMenu from 'periscope/components/ContextMenu';
-import ListColumnsEditor from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/ListColumnsEditor/ListColumnsEditor';
-import PanelEditorQueryBuilder from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PanelEditorQueryBuilder/PanelEditorQueryBuilder';
-import PreviewPane from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/PreviewPane/PreviewPane';
-import type { DashboardPreference } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
-import { useViewPanelStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useViewPanelStore';
-import { useOpenPanelEditor } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/useOpenPanelEditor';
+import { useMemo } from 'react';
+import type {
+	DashboardtypesPanelDTO,
+	DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO,
+} from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { PANEL_TYPES } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
+import { QueryParams } from 'constants/query';
+import { useGetCompositeQueryParam } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useGetCompositeQueryParam';
+import useUrlQuery from 'hooks/useUrlQuery';
+import { usePanelEditorDraft } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelEditorDraft';
+import { usePanelTypeSwitch } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelTypeSwitch';
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { buildViewPanelSpec } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/drilldown/buildViewPanelSpec';
+import { useDashboardStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useDashboardStore';
 
-import { useDrilldown } from '../hooks/useDrilldown';
-import { usePanelInteractions } from '../hooks/usePanelInteractions';
-import ViewPanelModalHeader from './ViewPanelModalHeader';
-import { useViewPanelMode } from './useViewPanelMode';
-import { useViewPanelTimeWindow } from './useViewPanelTimeWindow';
-import styles from './ViewPanelModal.module.scss';
-import logEvent from 'api/common/logEvent';
-import {
-	DashboardDetailEvents,
-	DashboardEvents,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/constants/events';
+import QueryViewModalBody from './QueryViewModalBody';
+import StaticViewModalBody from './StaticViewModalBody';
+import { readViewPanelHandoff } from './viewPanelHandoffStore';
 
 interface ViewPanelModalContentProps {
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
@@ -30,168 +26,79 @@ interface ViewPanelModalContentProps {
 }
 
 /**
- * Body of the View modal: a compact drilldown editor. It renders an editable draft of
- * the panel (preview) over a per-view time window plus the shared query builder, so the
- * user can tweak + Stage & Run without touching the dashboard. Edits are temporary.
+ * View-modal shell. Owns the draft and the kind-switch cache — the state that
+ * must survive a switch between authoring modes — and forks on the draft kind's
+ * `mode`, so a static kind mounts no time window, query session or drilldown.
  */
 function ViewPanelModalContent({
 	panel,
 	panelId,
 	onClose,
-}: ViewPanelModalContentProps): JSX.Element | null {
-	const {
-		timeOverride,
-		selectedInterval,
-		onTimeChange,
-		refreshWindow,
-		onDragSelect,
-		extendWindow,
-	} = useViewPanelTimeWindow();
+}: ViewPanelModalContentProps): JSX.Element {
+	// Config edits from the editor's "Switch to View Mode" arrive via the handoff; the
+	// query still comes from the URL. Falls back to the saved panel for a plain "View".
+	const dashboardId = useDashboardStore((s) => s.dashboardId);
+	const baseSpec = useMemo<DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO>(
+		() => readViewPanelHandoff(dashboardId, panelId) ?? panel.spec,
+		// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps -- mount-only seed
+		[],
+	);
 
-	const {
-		draft,
-		setSpec,
-		panelDefinition,
-		signal,
-		queryType,
-		query,
-		runQuery,
-		onChangePanelKind,
-		resetQuery,
-		buildSaveSpec,
-		applyDrilldownQuery,
-	} = useViewPanelMode({ panel, panelId, time: timeOverride });
-	const {
-		data,
-		isFetching,
-		isPreviousData,
-		error,
-		refetch,
-		cancelQuery,
-		pagination,
-	} = query;
+	// Mount-only so a refresh re-seeds and in-modal edits survive (V1 parity).
+	const compositeQuery = useGetCompositeQueryParam();
+	const urlGraphType = useUrlQuery().get(
+		QueryParams.graphType,
+	) as PANEL_TYPES | null;
+	const initialPanel = useMemo<DashboardtypesPanelDTO>(
+		() => {
+			// A URL query can only seed a kind that takes one.
+			const isQuerySeeded =
+				compositeQuery && getPanelDefinition(baseSpec.plugin.kind).mode === 'query';
+			return isQuerySeeded
+				? {
+						...panel,
+						spec: buildViewPanelSpec({
+							spec: baseSpec,
+							query: compositeQuery,
+							panelType:
+								urlGraphType ?? PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[baseSpec.plugin.kind],
+						}),
+					}
+				: { ...panel, spec: baseSpec };
+		},
+		// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps -- mount-only seed from the URL
+		[],
+	);
 
-	const isListPanel = draft.spec.plugin.kind === 'signoz/ListPanel';
+	const draftApi = usePanelEditorDraft(initialPanel);
+	const draftKind = draftApi.draft.spec.plugin.kind;
+	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(draftKind);
 
-	// Grid drill-down, but filter-by-value / breakout refine this view in place. Drills the draft
-	// so it reflects in-modal edits (and the click's time range follows the per-view window).
-	const drilldown = useDrilldown(draft, panelId, {
-		openDrilldownView: applyDrilldownQuery,
+	const { onChangePanelKind } = usePanelTypeSwitch({
+		spec: draftApi.draft.spec,
+		panelType: PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[draftKind],
+		setSpec: draftApi.setSpec,
 	});
 
-	// Drag-to-zoom stays inside the modal; opt the chart out of the dashboard's
-	// cursor-sync group so a drag here can't replay onto the grid panels.
-	const { dashboardPreference } = usePanelInteractions();
-	const isolatedPreference = useMemo<DashboardPreference>(
-		() => ({ ...dashboardPreference, syncMode: DashboardCursorSync.None }),
-		[dashboardPreference],
-	);
-	const openPanelEditor = useOpenPanelEditor();
-
-	// Modal drag-to-zoom is its own path (local window, not the grid's) — tag it distinctly.
-	const handleDragSelect = useCallback(
-		(start: number, end: number): void => {
-			if (Math.floor(start) !== Math.floor(end)) {
-				void logEvent(DashboardDetailEvents.PanelZoomed, {
-					context: 'viewModal',
-					panelType: draft.spec.plugin.kind,
-					panelId,
-				});
-			}
-			onDragSelect(start, end);
-		},
-		[onDragSelect, draft.spec.plugin.kind, panelId],
-	);
-
-	// Publish the modal's local extender for the nested no-data state; cleared on close.
-	const setViewPanelExtendWindow = useViewPanelStore(
-		(s) => s.setViewPanelExtendWindow,
-	);
-	useEffect(() => {
-		setViewPanelExtendWindow(extendWindow);
-		return (): void => setViewPanelExtendWindow(null);
-	}, [extendWindow, setViewPanelExtendWindow]);
-
-	// The View action only appears for registered kinds, so this is defensive.
-	if (!panelDefinition) {
-		return null;
+	if (panelDefinition.mode === 'static') {
+		return (
+			<StaticViewModalBody
+				panelId={panelId}
+				draftApi={draftApi}
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+			/>
+		);
 	}
 
-	const onSwitchToEdit = (): void => {
-		// Carry the drilldown edits so the editor opens on them, not the saved panel.
-		logEvent(DashboardEvents.SWITCH_TO_EDIT_MODE, {
-			panelId: panelId,
-		});
-		openPanelEditor(panelId, {
-			handoffState: { editSpec: buildSaveSpec(draft.spec) },
-		});
-	};
-
 	return (
-		<div className={styles.content} data-testid="view-panel-modal-content">
-			<ViewPanelModalHeader
-				selectedInterval={selectedInterval}
-				startMs={timeOverride.startMs}
-				endMs={timeOverride.endMs}
-				onTimeChange={onTimeChange}
-				isFetching={isFetching}
-				onRefresh={(): void => {
-					// Relative windows re-anchor to now (new key → refetch); a fixed
-					// custom window just re-runs the same query.
-					if (selectedInterval === 'custom') {
-						refetch();
-					} else {
-						refreshWindow();
-					}
-				}}
-				onSwitchToEdit={onSwitchToEdit}
-				panelKind={draft.spec.plugin.kind}
-				queryType={queryType}
-				signal={signal}
-				onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
-				onResetQuery={resetQuery}
-			/>
-			<div className={styles.queryBuilder}>
-				<PanelEditorQueryBuilder
-					panelKind={draft.spec.plugin.kind}
-					signal={signal}
-					isLoadingQueries={isFetching}
-					onStageRunQuery={runQuery}
-					onCancelQuery={cancelQuery}
-					stickyHeader={false}
-					footer={
-						isListPanel ? (
-							<ListColumnsEditor
-								spec={draft.spec}
-								onChangeSpec={setSpec}
-								signal={signal}
-							/>
-						) : undefined
-					}
-				/>
-			</div>
-			<div className={styles.body}>
-				<PreviewPane
-					panelId={panelId}
-					panel={draft}
-					panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
-					data={data}
-					isFetching={isFetching}
-					isPreviousData={isPreviousData}
-					error={error}
-					refetch={refetch}
-					onDragSelect={handleDragSelect}
-					pagination={pagination}
-					panelMode={PanelMode.STANDALONE_VIEW}
-					dashboardPreference={isolatedPreference}
-					onCloseStandaloneView={onClose}
-					onClick={drilldown.onPanelClick}
-					enableDrillDown={drilldown.enableDrillDown}
-					hideHeader
-				/>
-			</div>
-			<ContextMenu {...drilldown.contextMenuProps} />
-		</div>
+		<QueryViewModalBody
+			panel={panel}
+			panelId={panelId}
+			onClose={onClose}
+			draftApi={draftApi}
+			onChangePanelKind={onChangePanelKind}
+		/>
 	);
 }
 

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/ViewPanelModal/useViewPanelMode.ts

@@ -5,17 +5,12 @@ import type {
 	TelemetrytypesSignalDTO,
 } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import { QueryParams } from 'constants/query';
-import { PANEL_TYPES } from 'constants/queryBuilder';
-import { useGetCompositeQueryParam } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useGetCompositeQueryParam';
 import { useQueryBuilder } from 'hooks/queryBuilder/useQueryBuilder';
-import useUrlQuery from 'hooks/useUrlQuery';
 import { usePanelEditSession } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelEditSession';
+import type { PanelEditorDraftApi } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/types';
 import type { OpenDrilldownView } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/drilldown';
-import type { RenderablePanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
-import {
-	PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE,
-	type PanelKind,
-} from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
 import { resolveSignal } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getBuilderQueries';
 import { buildViewPanelSpec } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/drilldown/buildViewPanelSpec';
 import { fromPerses } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/persesQueryAdapters';
@@ -23,16 +18,15 @@ import {
 	type PanelQueryTimeOverride,
 	type UsePanelQueryResult,
 } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery';
-import { useDashboardStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useDashboardStore';
 import type { EQueryType } from 'types/common/dashboard';
 
-import { readViewPanelHandoff } from './viewPanelHandoffStore';
-
 interface UseViewPanelModeArgs {
 	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
 	panelId: string;
 	/** Per-view time window (epoch ms); isolates the preview from the dashboard. */
 	time: PanelQueryTimeOverride;
+	/** Draft state, owned by the modal shell so it survives an authoring-mode switch. */
+	draftApi: PanelEditorDraftApi;
 }
 
 export interface UseViewPanelModeReturn {
@@ -41,7 +35,7 @@ export interface UseViewPanelModeReturn {
 	/** Update the draft's spec in place (e.g. the List columns editor). */
 	setSpec: (next: DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO) => void;
 	/** Resolved renderer for the draft's current kind (registry always resolves a kind). */
-	panelDefinition: RenderablePanelDefinition;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
 	/**
 	 * Builder datasource driving the query builder and the panel-type selector's
 	 * disabled rule. Resolved from the query, falling back to the kind's default
@@ -54,8 +48,6 @@ export interface UseViewPanelModeReturn {
 	query: UsePanelQueryResult;
 	/** Stage & run the live builder query into the draft (drilldown; not persisted). */
 	runQuery: () => void;
-	/** Switch the draft's visualization kind (temporary; reversible per session). */
-	onChangePanelKind: (kind: PanelKind) => void;
 	/** Restore the query the view opened with, discarding in-modal edits. */
 	resetQuery: () => void;
 	/** Bake the live (possibly un-run) query into a spec — used to hand edits to the full editor. */
@@ -77,51 +69,20 @@ export function useViewPanelMode({
 	panel,
 	panelId,
 	time,
+	draftApi,
 }: UseViewPanelModeArgs): UseViewPanelModeReturn {
 	const { currentQuery, redirectWithQueryBuilderData } = useQueryBuilder();
 
-	// Config edits from the editor's "Switch to View Mode" arrive via the handoff; the query
-	// still comes from the URL. Falls back to the saved panel for a plain grid "View".
-	const dashboardId = useDashboardStore((s) => s.dashboardId);
-	const baseSpec = useMemo<DashboardtypesPanelSpecDTO>(
-		() => readViewPanelHandoff(dashboardId, panelId) ?? panel.spec,
-		// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps -- mount-only seed
-		[],
-	);
-
-	// Mount-only so a refresh re-seeds and in-modal edits survive (V1 parity).
-	const compositeQuery = useGetCompositeQueryParam();
-	const urlGraphType = useUrlQuery().get(
-		QueryParams.graphType,
-	) as PANEL_TYPES | null;
-	const initialPanel = useMemo<DashboardtypesPanelDTO>(
-		() =>
-			compositeQuery
-				? {
-						...panel,
-						spec: buildViewPanelSpec({
-							spec: baseSpec,
-							query: compositeQuery,
-							panelType:
-								urlGraphType ?? PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE[baseSpec.plugin.kind],
-						}),
-					}
-				: { ...panel, spec: baseSpec },
-		// eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps -- mount-only seed from the URL
-		[],
-	);
-
 	const {
 		draft,
 		panelDefinition,
 		defaultSignal,
 		query,
 		runQuery,
-		onChangePanelKind,
 		buildSaveSpec,
 		reset,
 		setSpec,
-	} = usePanelEditSession({ panel: initialPanel, panelId, time });
+	} = usePanelEditSession({ panel, panelId, time, draftApi });
 
 	// The query the view opened with, captured once — the Reset target.
 	const savedQuery = useMemo(
@@ -178,7 +139,6 @@ export function useViewPanelMode({
 		queryType: currentQuery.queryType,
 		query,
 		runQuery,
-		onChangePanelKind,
 		resetQuery,
 		buildSaveSpec,
 		applyDrilldownQuery,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/__tests__/Panel.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import { usePanelQuery } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery';
+import { EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
+
+import Panel from '../Panel';
+
+// Real registry by default; the static cases override per render.
+jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry', () => {
+	const actual = jest.requireActual(
+		'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry',
+	);
+	return { ...actual, getPanelDefinition: jest.fn(actual.getPanelDefinition) };
+});
+jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/usePanelQuery', () => ({
+	usePanelQuery: jest.fn(),
+}));
+
+// Chrome + query-path collaborators stubbed: this file tests the mode fork, not them.
+jest.mock('../PanelHeader/PanelHeader', () => ({
+	__esModule: true,
+	default: (): JSX.Element => <div data-testid="panel-header" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('../PanelBody/PanelBody', () => ({
+	__esModule: true,
+	default: (): JSX.Element => <div data-testid="query-panel-body" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('../hooks/useDrilldown', () => ({
+	useDrilldown: (): unknown => ({
+		onPanelClick: jest.fn(),
+		enableDrillDown: false,
+		contextMenuProps: {},
+	}),
+}));
+jest.mock('../hooks/usePanelInteractions', () => ({
+	usePanelInteractions: (): unknown => ({
+		onDragSelect: jest.fn(),
+		dashboardPreference: undefined,
+	}),
+}));
+jest.mock('periscope/components/ContextMenu', () => ({
+	__esModule: true,
+	default: (): null => null,
+}));
+
+const mockUsePanelQuery = usePanelQuery as jest.Mock;
+const mockGetPanelDefinition = getPanelDefinition as jest.Mock;
+
+const panel = {
+	kind: 'Panel',
+	spec: {
+		display: { name: 'P' },
+		plugin: { kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel', spec: {} },
+		queries: [],
+	},
+} as unknown as DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+
+function StaticRenderer(props: { panelMode: string }): JSX.Element {
+	return <div data-testid="fake-static-renderer" data-mode={props.panelMode} />;
+}
+
+const staticDefinition = {
+	kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel',
+	displayName: 'Static',
+	sections: [],
+	actions: { search: false },
+	mode: 'static',
+	Renderer: StaticRenderer,
+	EditorPane: StaticRenderer,
+};
+
+describe('Panel — authoring-mode fork', () => {
+	beforeEach(() => {
+		mockUsePanelQuery.mockReset();
+		mockUsePanelQuery.mockReturnValue({
+			data: EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA,
+			isFetching: false,
+			isPreviousData: false,
+			error: null,
+			refetch: jest.fn(),
+			pagination: undefined,
+		});
+	});
+
+	it('mounts the query body and fetch for a query kind', () => {
+		render(<Panel panel={panel} panelId="p1" />);
+
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('query-panel-body')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(mockUsePanelQuery).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+	});
+
+	it('mounts the static renderer for a static kind with no query hook at all', () => {
+		mockGetPanelDefinition.mockReturnValueOnce(staticDefinition);
+
+		render(<Panel panel={panel} panelId="p1" />);
+
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('static-panel-body')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('fake-static-renderer')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(screen.queryByTestId('query-panel-body')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(mockUsePanelQuery).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+	});
+
+	it('renders the static body in dashboard-view mode with panel chrome', () => {
+		mockGetPanelDefinition.mockReturnValueOnce(staticDefinition);
+
+		render(<Panel panel={panel} panelId="p1" />);
+
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('fake-static-renderer')).toHaveAttribute(
+			'data-mode',
+			'DASHBOARD_VIEW',
+		);
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('panel-header')).toBeInTheDocument();
+	});
+});

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/__tests__/ViewPanelModal.test.tsx

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import { TooltipProvider } from '@signozhq/ui/tooltip';
-import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
-import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
+import { fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 import type { ReactElement } from 'react';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 import { DashboardCursorSync } from 'lib/uPlotV2/plugins/TooltipPlugin/types';
 
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+
 import ViewPanelModal from '../ViewPanelModal/ViewPanelModal';
 
 // The preview reuses the edit page's PreviewPane (chart + header + heavy render
@@ -21,6 +22,30 @@ jest.mock(
 );
 
 // Isolate from the draft/query-builder plumbing (its own suite covers it).
+// Real registry by default; the static-fork test overrides one kind.
+jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry', () => {
+	const actual = jest.requireActual(
+		'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry',
+	);
+	return { ...actual, getPanelDefinition: jest.fn(actual.getPanelDefinition) };
+});
+
+// The shell reads the URL seed + kind switch itself; stub its collaborators so
+// the suite needs no router and keeps asserting through the mocked mode hook.
+jest.mock('hooks/queryBuilder/useGetCompositeQueryParam', () => ({
+	useGetCompositeQueryParam: (): null => null,
+}));
+jest.mock('hooks/useUrlQuery', () => ({
+	__esModule: true,
+	default: (): URLSearchParams => new URLSearchParams(),
+}));
+jest.mock(
+	'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelTypeSwitch',
+	() => ({
+		usePanelTypeSwitch: (): unknown => ({ onChangePanelKind: jest.fn() }),
+	}),
+);
+
 jest.mock('../ViewPanelModal/useViewPanelMode', () => ({
 	useViewPanelMode: (args: {
 		panel: { spec: { plugin: { kind: string } } };
@@ -30,8 +55,14 @@ jest.mock('../ViewPanelModal/useViewPanelMode', () => ({
 			draft: args.panel,
 			panelDefinition: {
 				kind,
+				mode: 'query',
 				actions: { search: kind === 'signoz/ListPanel' },
 				Renderer: (): null => null,
+				// Same testid as the real pane: the suite asserts the modal fills its
+				// query-builder slot from the definition.
+				EditorPane: (): JSX.Element => (
+					<div data-testid="panel-editor-v2-query-builder" />
+				),
 			},
 			query: {
 				data: { response: undefined, requestPayload: undefined, legendMap: {} },
@@ -161,8 +192,7 @@ describe('ViewPanelModal', () => {
 		expect(screen.getByTestId('preview-pane')).toBeInTheDocument();
 	});
 
-	it('invokes onClose when the modal is dismissed', async () => {
-		const user = userEvent.setup();
+	it('invokes onClose when the modal is dismissed', () => {
 		const onClose = jest.fn();
 		renderWithProvider(
 			<ViewPanelModal
@@ -172,10 +202,51 @@ describe('ViewPanelModal', () => {
 				onClose={onClose}
 			/>,
 		);
-		await user.click(screen.getByLabelText('Close'));
+		// fireEvent: user-event's pointer walk races Radix's layer bookkeeping in
+		// jsdom, transiently dropping the dialog's pointer-events and failing the
+		// interaction check. The assertion is only that Close wires to onClose.
+		fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText('Close'));
 		expect(onClose).toHaveBeenCalled();
 	});
 
+	it('mounts the static body — editor pane, no query builder slot — for a static kind', () => {
+		const actual = jest.requireActual(
+			'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry',
+		);
+		const staticDefinition = {
+			kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel',
+			displayName: 'Static',
+			sections: [],
+			actions: {},
+			mode: 'static',
+			Renderer: (): JSX.Element => <div data-testid="fake-static-renderer" />,
+			EditorPane: (): JSX.Element => <div data-testid="static-editor-pane" />,
+		};
+		(getPanelDefinition as jest.Mock).mockImplementation((kind: string) =>
+			kind === 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel' ? staticDefinition : actual.getPanelDefinition(kind),
+		);
+
+		renderWithProvider(
+			<ViewPanelModal
+				panel={makePanel('signoz/TimeSeriesPanel')}
+				panelId="p1"
+				open
+				onClose={jest.fn()}
+			/>,
+		);
+
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('static-editor-pane')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('fake-static-renderer')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(
+			screen.queryByTestId('panel-editor-v2-query-builder'),
+		).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(mockPreviewPaneRender).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+		(getPanelDefinition as jest.Mock).mockImplementation(
+			actual.getPanelDefinition,
+		);
+	});
+
 	// Charts share one global cursor-sync key and uPlot replays drag across the
 	// group; the modal must opt out so a drag here can't move the dashboard's time.
 	it('opts the chart out of the dashboard cursor-sync group', () => {

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/__tests__/useDrilldown.test.tsx

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ jest.mock(
 // importing the whole renderer registry into the test.
 jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry', () => ({
 	getPanelDefinition: (kind: string): unknown => ({
+		mode: 'query',
 		actions: { drilldown: kind !== 'signoz/ListPanel' },
 	}),
 }));

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/__tests__/useViewPanel.test.tsx

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import { fromPerses } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/perse
 import { QueryBuilderProvider } from 'providers/QueryBuilder';
 import type { Query } from 'types/api/queryBuilder/queryBuilderData';
 
+import { usePanelEditorDraft } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelEditor/hooks/usePanelEditorDraft';
+
 import { useViewPanelMode } from '../ViewPanelModal/useViewPanelMode';
 import { useViewPanel } from '../hooks/useViewPanel';
 
@@ -89,10 +91,13 @@ const stagedIds: (string | undefined)[] = [];
 
 function ModalBody({ panelId }: { panelId: string }): JSX.Element {
 	const { currentQuery } = useQueryBuilder();
+	// The modal shell owns the draft in production; mirrored here.
+	const draftApi = usePanelEditorDraft(PANELS[panelId]);
 	const { draft } = useViewPanelMode({
 		panel: PANELS[panelId],
 		panelId,
 		time: { startMs: 0, endMs: 1000 },
+		draftApi,
 	});
 	renders.push({
 		current: panelOf(JSON.stringify(currentQuery)),

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/hooks/useCreateAlertFromPanel.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { buildQueryRangeRequest } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/q
 import { envelopesToQuery } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/persesQueryAdapters';
 import { selectResolvedVariables } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/slices/variableSelectionSlice';
 import { useDashboardStore } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/store/useDashboardStore';
-import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+import { requireQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
 import { AppState } from 'store/reducers';
 import { GlobalReducer } from 'types/reducer/globalTime';
 
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ export function useCreateAlertFromPanel(): (
 			// Redux global time is nanoseconds; the request DTO takes epoch ms.
 			const request = buildQueryRangeRequest({
 				queries: panel.spec.queries,
-				queryCapabilities: getPanelDefinition(panelKind).queryCapabilities,
+				// Reached only through the menu item `actions.createAlert` gates.
+				queryCapabilities: requireQueryPanelDefinition(panelKind).queryCapabilities,
 				startMs: Math.floor(minTime / NANO_SECOND_MULTIPLIER),
 				endMs: Math.floor(maxTime / NANO_SECOND_MULTIPLIER),
 				variables,

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/hooks/useDrilldown.tsx

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import type {
 	OpenDrilldownView,
 } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/drilldown';
 import { PANEL_KIND_TO_PANEL_TYPE } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelKind';
+import { requireQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/capabilities';
 import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
 import { buildAggregateData } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/drilldown/buildAggregateData';
 import { getBuilderQueries } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/utils/getBuilderQueries';
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ export function useDrilldown(
 	const { resolvedQuery, isResolving } = useResolvedDrilldownQuery({
 		queries,
 		panelKind: kind,
-		queryCapabilities: getPanelDefinition(kind).queryCapabilities,
+		queryCapabilities: requireQueryPanelDefinition(kind).queryCapabilities,
 		v1Query,
 		enabled: showAggregateMenu,
 	});

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/hooks/useViewPanel.ts

@@ -52,15 +52,18 @@ export function useViewPanel(): UseViewPanelApi {
 			// Only a drilldown retargets the panel type.
 			next.delete(QueryParams.graphType);
 			clearViewPanelHandoff();
+			// `null` for a static kind — no query state to stage or persist.
 			const query = getPanelBuilderQuery(panel);
-			next.set(
-				QueryParams.compositeQuery,
-				encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(query)),
-			);
-			// The provider applies the URL in an effect, a tick after the builder's fields have
-			// mounted and read the query they keep. `resetQuery` — not `initQueryBuilderData`:
-			// swapping one staged id for another re-anchors global time and refetches the grid.
-			resetQuery(query);
+			if (query) {
+				next.set(
+					QueryParams.compositeQuery,
+					encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(query)),
+				);
+				// The provider applies the URL in an effect, a tick after the builder's fields have
+				// mounted and read the query they keep. `resetQuery` — not `initQueryBuilderData`:
+				// swapping one staged id for another re-anchors global time and refetches the grid.
+				resetQuery(query);
+			}
 			void logEvent(DashboardDetailEvents.PanelViewed, { panelId });
 			safeNavigate(`${pathname}?${next.toString()}`);
 		},

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/hooks/useOpenPanelEditor.ts

@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ export function useOpenPanelEditor(): (
 			new URLSearchParams(timeSearch).forEach((value, key) => {
 				params.set(key, value);
 			});
-			if (options?.panel) {
-				const query = getPanelBuilderQuery(options.panel);
+			// `null` for a static kind — no query state to stage or persist.
+			const query = options?.panel && getPanelBuilderQuery(options.panel);
+			if (query) {
 				// Single-encoded: `useGetCompositeQueryParam` decodes once on top of the decode
 				// `URLSearchParams` already does.
 				params.set(

frontend/src/pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ export interface PanelQueryData {
 	legendMap: Record<string, string>;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The no-fetch value of `PanelQueryData`, for chrome shared with static panels —
+ * the header renders status/download surfaces off it and shows neither.
+ */
+export const EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA: PanelQueryData = {
+	response: undefined,
+	requestPayload: undefined,
+	legendMap: {},
+};
+
 /** One data point. `timestamp` is epoch milliseconds (V5 wire native). */
 export interface PanelSeriesPoint {
 	timestamp: number;

frontend/src/pages/PublicDashboard/PublicDashboardView/PublicPanel/PublicPanel.tsx

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import { noop } from 'lodash-es';
 import PanelBody from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelBody/PanelBody';
 import PanelHeader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
 import type { DashboardPreference } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/rendererProps';
+import type { RenderableQueryPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
 import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
 
 import { usePublicPanelQuery } from '../hooks/usePublicPanelQuery';
+import StaticPublicPanel from './StaticPublicPanel';
 import styles from './PublicPanel.module.scss';
 
 interface PublicPanelProps {
@@ -26,17 +28,40 @@ const PUBLIC_DASHBOARD_PREFERENCE: DashboardPreference = {
 	syncMode: DashboardCursorSync.None,
 };
 
-// Read-only v2 public panel: reuses the V2 header/body renderers with interactions disabled.
-function PublicPanel({
+/**
+ * Read-only v2 public panel. Forks on the kind's mode before any query machinery
+ * exists; the static arm renders nothing until a static kind registers.
+ */
+function PublicPanel(props: PublicPanelProps): JSX.Element {
+	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(props.panel.spec.plugin.kind);
+
+	if (panelDefinition.mode === 'static') {
+		return (
+			<StaticPublicPanel
+				panel={props.panel}
+				panelKey={props.panelKey}
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+			/>
+		);
+	}
+
+	return <QueryPublicPanel {...props} panelDefinition={panelDefinition} />;
+}
+
+interface QueryPublicPanelProps extends PublicPanelProps {
+	panelDefinition: RenderableQueryPanelDefinition;
+}
+
+// Reuses the V2 header/body renderers with interactions disabled.
+function QueryPublicPanel({
 	panel,
 	panelKey,
 	publicDashboardId,
 	startMs,
 	endMs,
 	isVisible,
-}: PublicPanelProps): JSX.Element {
-	const panelDefinition = getPanelDefinition(panel.spec.plugin.kind);
-
+	panelDefinition,
+}: QueryPublicPanelProps): JSX.Element {
 	const { data, isFetching, isPreviousData, error, refetch } =
 		usePublicPanelQuery({
 			panel,
@@ -60,7 +85,7 @@ function PublicPanel({
 				hideActions
 			/>
 			<PanelBody
-				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				Renderer={panelDefinition.Renderer}
 				panel={panel}
 				panelId={panelKey}
 				data={data}

frontend/src/pages/PublicDashboard/PublicDashboardView/PublicPanel/StaticPublicPanel.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
+import PanelHeader from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader';
+import StaticPanelBody from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/StaticPanelBody/StaticPanelBody';
+import type { RenderableStaticPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/types/panelDefinition';
+import { EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/queryV5/types';
+
+import styles from './PublicPanel.module.scss';
+
+interface StaticPublicPanelProps {
+	panel: DashboardtypesPanelDTO;
+	panelKey: string;
+	panelDefinition: RenderableStaticPanelDefinition;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read-only public rendering of a kind that renders from its own plugin spec. The
+ * body is authored content meant to be read, so it is not redacted — and there is
+ * no query to issue. Public dashboards carry no variable runtime, so variable
+ * tokens render literally, as an undefined variable does anywhere else.
+ */
+function StaticPublicPanel({
+	panel,
+	panelKey,
+	panelDefinition,
+}: StaticPublicPanelProps): JSX.Element {
+	return (
+		<div className={styles.panel} data-panel-root={panelKey}>
+			<PanelHeader
+				panelId={panelKey}
+				panel={panel}
+				data={EMPTY_PANEL_QUERY_DATA}
+				isFetching={false}
+				error={null}
+				hideActions
+			/>
+			<StaticPanelBody
+				panelDefinition={panelDefinition}
+				panel={panel}
+				panelId={panelKey}
+			/>
+		</div>
+	);
+}
+
+export default StaticPublicPanel;

frontend/src/pages/PublicDashboard/PublicDashboardView/PublicPanel/__tests__/PublicPanel.test.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 import type { DashboardtypesPanelDTO } from 'api/generated/services/sigNoz.schemas';
 
+import { getPanelDefinition } from 'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry';
+
 import { usePublicPanelQuery } from '../../hooks/usePublicPanelQuery';
 import PublicPanel from '../PublicPanel';
 
@@ -8,6 +10,14 @@ jest.mock('../../hooks/usePublicPanelQuery', () => ({
 	usePublicPanelQuery: jest.fn(),
 }));
 
+// Real registry by default; individual tests override to a static definition.
+jest.mock('pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry', () => {
+	const actual = jest.requireActual(
+		'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/Panels/registry',
+	);
+	return { ...actual, getPanelDefinition: jest.fn(actual.getPanelDefinition) };
+});
+
 // Stub the reused V2 renderers so the test targets PublicPanel's own wiring, not uPlot/timezone.
 jest.mock(
 	'pages/DashboardPage/DashboardContainer/PanelsAndSectionsLayout/Panel/PanelHeader/PanelHeader',
@@ -97,6 +107,30 @@ describe('PublicPanel', () => {
 		);
 	});
 
+	it('renders a static kind with no fetch at all', () => {
+		const StaticRenderer = (): JSX.Element => (
+			<div data-testid="fake-static-renderer" />
+		);
+		(getPanelDefinition as jest.Mock).mockReturnValueOnce({
+			kind: 'signoz/TimeSeriesPanel',
+			displayName: 'Static',
+			sections: [],
+			actions: {},
+			mode: 'static',
+			Renderer: StaticRenderer,
+			EditorPane: StaticRenderer,
+		});
+
+		render(<PublicPanel panel={timeseriesPanel} {...commonProps} />);
+
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('fake-static-renderer')).toBeInTheDocument();
+		expect(screen.getByTestId('panel-header')).toHaveAttribute(
+			'data-hide-actions',
+			'true',
+		);
+		expect(mockQuery).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+	});
+
 	it('gates the fetch when off screen', () => {
 		render(
 			<PublicPanel panel={timeseriesPanel} {...commonProps} isVisible={false} />,