Grafana Certified Plugin Partner, New Team Member, and Business Intelligence Focus for 2025
Welcome to the January 2025 edition of the Business Gazette! This month, we’re excited to share significant updates and milestones at Volkov Labs. Here’s what’s in store:
- Becoming the First Grafana Certified Plugin Partner: We are thrilled to announce our achievement as the inaugural certified partner for Grafana, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to delivering top-tier visualization solutions.
- Welcoming a New Team Member: We’re excited to introduce the newest addition to our team, bringing fresh perspectives and expertise to enhance our innovative projects.
- Recalibrating Our Development Focus for 2025: We are strategically realigning our priorities to ensure our development efforts align with future trends and customer needs for the upcoming year.
- Latest Release Highlights: Check out the key features and improvements in our most recent update, designed to elevate user experience and functionality.
- Celebrating 100 Published YouTube Videos: Join us in commemorating this milestone as we reach 100 videos, sharing insights, tutorials, and updates with our community.
- A Detailed Review-Tutorial of Business Table 1.9.0: Dive into our comprehensive guide on the latest version of Business Table, exploring new features and offering step-by-step usage tips. Let’s dive into the key highlights of January.
Grafana Certified Plugin Partner
We’re thrilled to kick off 2025 with groundbreaking news: Volkov Labs is now officially the first Grafana Certified Plugin Partner! This prestigious recognition underscores our commitment to delivering top-tier solutions for the Grafana community. Keep an eye out for our shiny new badge, which will soon appear on our website and in our YouTube video intros.
Join millions of users worldwide who have transformed their Grafana experience with our open-source plugins from the Business Suite collection. These tools continue to push the boundaries of data visualization and beyond.
Welcoming a New Team Member
In January 2025, we were delighted to welcome Mikhail to the Volkov Labs team. As we grow, we remain dedicated to fostering an inspiring and innovative environment for passionate individuals eager to work with cutting-edge technologies and share their expertise with a global audience.
Mikhail will play a pivotal role in the development of our new product, Business Intelligence platform. With his extensive background in business applications and e-commerce, he brings the precise expertise needed for this ambitious project. Welcome aboard, Mikhail! Your remarkable contributions in just a few days have already impressed us.
Recalibrating Our Development Focus
Our widely adopted open-source Business Suite plugin collection has consistently met user needs, delivering robust features and earning the trust of a delighted user base. However, having covered most user requirements, we felt it was time to explore new challenges.
While we will continue to maintain and enhance the Business Suite plugin collection—adding highly requested features and ensuring compatibility with future Grafana versions—our primary focus for 2025 is an exciting new venture: the Business Intelligence platform for Grafana.
Through close collaboration with the Grafana community and addressing real-world production use cases, we’ve identified a strong demand for reimagined alerting and reporting functionalities. Users frequently requested simplified interactions with all controls in a unified interface, as well as advanced features like anomaly detection for self-hosted Grafana instances.
Platform Architecture
The concept of the Business Intelligence platform emerged from extensive brainstorming and invaluable community feedback. We’ve designed a scalable, user-friendly system that can evolve in multiple directions while remaining easy to manage.
This architecture empowers users to:
- Manage multiple Grafana instances from a centralized Business Studio.
- Benefit from an intuitive, streamlined interface.
- Seamlessly integrate with upcoming Business Engine features.
Additionally, it opens possibilities for version control across Grafana instances, streamlined dashboard propagation (e.g., from DEV to QA to production), and more.
Release Highlights
Aligning with our new priorities, we’ve rolled out three consecutive releases of the Business Intelligence platform, each introducing significant improvements and enhancements.
Business Intelligence 2.2.0
Business Intelligence 2.3.0
Business Intelligence 2.4.0
Celebrating 100 YouTube Videos
Just two weeks into 2025, Volkov Labs achieved a remarkable milestone: our 100th video on YouTube! From our early days, when producing a single video took weeks, we’ve refined our process to create high-quality content in just days.
Our mission with each video is to bring you closer to Grafana, highlighting its immense potential and elegance. Thank you for your unwavering support over the years. Being part of the Grafana community is a privilege, and we’re excited to continue this journey together!
YouTube Content Updates
Business Intelligence Platform Tutorial
To support the launch of our new product, we’ve released a comprehensive review tutorial video. Since its publication, numerous features have been added as the Business Intelligence platform evolves rapidly. Stay updated by regularly visiting our blog and YouTube channel for the latest features and insights.
Business Table 1.9.0 Tutorial
We also released an in-depth tutorial video for Business Table 1.9.0, covering:
- New display data types (boolean, image, preformatted, rich text).
- New editor types (switch, text area).
- Updated parameter categories.
- Configuration details for Layout, Add Data, Edit Data, Delete Data, and Nested Objects.
- Practical examples of Business Table in action.
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