grafana-awesome

an awesome-style list of tools and resources for Grafana

note: this is a work in progress--PRs are encouraged!

CONTENTS

• quickstarting Grafana
  • examples
  • templates
  • cheat sheets
  • videos
• admin tasks
  • backing up Grafana settings
  • searching Grafana
  • migrating the grafana.db database
  • exporting and syncing dashboards (as-code)
  • reporting
  • auth
• alerting
  • unified alerting
  • legacy alerting
• plugin development
  • building
  • signing
  • publishing
• datasources
  • SQL data sources (MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, etc)
  • Prometheus data source
  • Loki
  • InfluxDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Cloudwatch
  • Azure Monitor
  • Zabbix
• visualizations
  • table panel
    • how to fix the gauges inside the table panel
• networking
  • reverse proxies
• other

quickstarting Grafana

resources to sandbox, bootstrap, and quickstart Grafana

examples

• play.grafana.org

  • grafana's public sandbox. a great place to try out features or mock up a problem.

• grafana/tutorial-environment

  • a batteries-inluded sample web application + grafana + loki + prometheus. Deploy everything with a single docker-compose up. And don't forget to try the companion "Fundamentals" tutorial.

templates

• title

  • description

• title

  • description

cheat sheets

• Grafana Cheatsheet, by Ruan Bekker

  • description

videos

• How to add a Prometheus data source in Grafana 8.3

  • a one-minute quickstart video

• How to build a Prometheus query in Grafana 8.3

  • a one-minute quickstart video

admin tasks

resources for common admin tasks like migrating the Grafana db, syncing dashboards, and generating reports

backing up Grafana

• ysde/grafana-backup-tool

  • A Python-based application to back up Grafana settings using the Grafana API

searching Grafana

• panodata/grafana-wtf

  • Grep through all Grafana entities in the spirit of git-wtf.

• Grafana extension for Raycast

  • Search your dashboard inside Raycast.

migrating the grafana.db database

• grafana/database-migrator

  • This script dumps data from a grafana sqlite database in a format that works with MySQL. It is intended to assist in migrating Grafana instances from the default sqlite database (grafana.db) to MySQL (or a MySQL-compatible DB like MariaDB).

dashboard exporting & syncing

• how to use cURL to export all grafana dashboards to JSON

  • a years-long and still active gist thread for exporting dashboards

• nicolastakashi/gitana

  • Gitana is a lightweight dashboard sync (K8s + sidecar solution)

• netsage-project/gdg

  • Grafana Dash-n-Grab (GDG) -- a CLI to backup and restore dashboards and datasources.

reporting

• IzakMarais/reporter

  • Service that generates a PDF report from a Grafana dashboard

• divinity666/ruby-grafana-reporter

  • Reporting Service for Grafana

• auth

• How to configure Auth0 and Grafana, by Kaizen Towfiq

ALERTING

resources for legacy alerting and the new unified alerting (Grafana 8+)

unified alerting

• title

  • description

• title

  • description

• orojina/grafana-cli

  • a command line tool that allows you to execute actions against Grafana api server (e.g. start/stop alerts)

legacy alerting

plugin development

resources for building, signing, and publishing Grafana Plugins

building

• marcusolsson/grafana-plugin-support

  • This repository contains various helper functions to assist in plugin development

• title

  • description

signing

• title

  • description

publishing

• "6 tips for improving your Grafana plugin before you publish"

  • read this blog post before submitting your plugin.

• grafana/plugin-validator

  • A tool for validating community plugins for publishing to Grafana.com.

• grafana/plugin-workflows

  • Contains a set of GitHub Action workflows for building, testing, and releasing Grafana plugins.

• grafana/grafana-plugin-repository

  • A good starting point for publishing a community plugin. Includes steps for submitting a plugin via the new workflow inside your Grafana Cloud account

data sources

data source plugins, exporters, REST APIs, and other get-my-data-into-Grafana solutions

SQL-driven data source plugins

• grafana/sqlds

  • Most SQL-driven datasources, like Postgres, MySQL, and MSSQL share extremely similar codebases. The sqlds package is intended to remove the repetition of these datasources and centralize the datasource logic.

• just upgraded to Grafana 8+?

  • Did it break some panels that use a SQL-driven DB like MySQL or Postgres? This is a known breaking change:

  • read this note in the changelog

  • read this issue comment for details and workarounds

  • try using the prepare-time-series transformation

Prometheus data source plugin

• roaldnefs/awesome-prometheus

  • A curated list of awesome Prometheus resources, projects and tools.

• grafana/dashboard-linter

  • Lint your dashboards for common mistakes (Prometheus data source only)

Python, Pandas, & Data Analysis

• panodata/grafana-pandas-datasource

  • connect Python's greatest data analysis library to Grafana. grafana-pandas-datasource is a REST API based on Flask for serving Pandas Dataframes to Grafana. This way, a native Python application can supply data to Grafana both easily and powerfully.

  • Originally based on this gist by @linar-jether

visualizations

table panel

• [how to fix the gauges inside the table panel]

timeseries panel

networking

reverse proxies

• Reverse Proxy change in 8.3.5

  • the new header setting for reverse proxies for 8.3.5+. Did upgrading to 8.3.5+ break your grafana? Is your grafana behind a reverse proxy? Check out this issue.

other resources

IoT, home lab, & maker solutions

• panodata/grafanimate

  • Tool for creating animations of your time-series by capturing screenshots while stepping through time.

• grafana/prometheus-arduino

  • An Arduino library for sending prometheus metrics directly to a Prometheus remote write endpoint.

time and time-picker solutions

• WilliamVenner/grafana-timepicker-buttons

  • Datasource-configured buttons panel plugin that set the time range of your Grafana dashboard