Business Calendar 1.2.0: Week Start, Event Details, and Modern Styling

We’re thrilled to unveil Business Calendar 1.2.0, a significant update to our popular Grafana plugin. With over 1 million downloads, this release brings exciting features, modern styling, and enhanced functionality to help you visualize events like never before. Here’s what’s new:

• Event Coloring: Color-code events based on threshold ranges for better insights.
• Week Start Customization: Align the calendar with your system’s week start day (Monday, Saturday, Sunday, or default) via Grafana settings.
• Time Display Option: Show event times alongside titles for clarity.
• Modern Drawer UI: Redesigned sidebar with a card-based layout for event details.
• Grafana 9.3.6 Compatibility: Seamless integration with the latest Grafana version.
• Theme v2 Migration: Refactored legacy code and updated styles for a sleek, Google Calendar-like experience.
• Visual Overhaul: Removed panel padding and modernized the plugin’s look.

Celebrating 1 Million Downloads 🎉

The Business Calendar panel has reached an incredible milestone—over 1 million downloads in just two years! Thank you for making this plugin a go-to tool for event visualization in Grafana.

Celebrating over 1 million downloads in two years!

Display Events from PostgreSQL

Learn how to configure the Business Calendar panel to fetch events from a PostgreSQL database. This tutorial applies to any supported data source in Grafana.

How to Display Events from PostgreSQL in Grafana

Modernized Styles with Theme v2

We’ve upgraded from Theme v1 to v2, revamping the plugin’s appearance for a polished, user-friendly experience. The new Display Time option lets you view event times before titles, enhancing readability.

Updated Business Calendar panel in the Grafana Plugins catalog.

Custom Week Start

Set the first day of the week—Saturday, Sunday, or Monday—based on Grafana’s system settings or user preferences. This ensures the calendar aligns with your workflow.

Choose the first day of the week in Grafana preferences.

Dynamic Event Coloring

One of the most requested features is here! Color events dynamically based on configured threshold ranges to highlight critical data at a glance.

Color-coded single- and multi-day events using threshold ranges.

Enhanced Event Details

When events overflow a day cell, a "N more" link appears. Click it to view the full list in a sidebar. You can also click individual events to see detailed information or follow data links if the On Click option is set to Open Link.

View all events for a day with the modern drawer UI.

Event details displayed with card components and links.

Time Range Selection

Easily filter events by selecting a time range directly on the calendar. Click a day, hold Shift, and drag to the desired end date. Confirm by clicking Apply time range to update your view.

Select a custom time range directly on the calendar.

Getting Started

You can install the Business Calendar panel plugin from the Grafana Plugins catalog or use the Grafana command line tool.

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For the latter, please use the following command:

grafana cli plugins install marcusolsson-calendar-panel

Tutorial

This video is a detailed review of all configurable options. To ensure you can follow, Daria starts with fetching publicly available Grafana plugin catalog data and then demonstrates how the Business Calendar plugin options change the panel appearance and behavior.

Overview and detailed tutorial. Display dates and time in Grafana.

We have many other tutorials that you can find helpful. You can review all related to this plugin tutorials here.

Release Notes

Breaking Changes

Refactoring and style migration may introduce breaking changes. We recommend testing the update in a non-production environment before deploying to live Grafana instances.

Features & Enhancements

• Added color customization for calendar entries (#67).
• Filtered out undefined events for cleaner displays (#69, #81).
• Updated CI and release workflows for smoother development (#72).
• Ensured compatibility with Grafana 9.3.6 (#73).
• Refactored plugin options to use field pickers (#74).
• Redesigned Day and Events drawers with modern UI (#75).
• Removed panel padding for a cleaner look (#75).
• Updated day view and styling (#76).
• Migrated to Theme v2 for a modern aesthetic (#79).
• Applied Grafana system settings for week start day (#80).
• Added time display option for events (#82).
• Refreshed styles and updated screenshots (#83).

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