Community release, updated configuration, and Grafana compatibility updates in Business Satellite 1.1.0

We are happy to announce the release of the Business Satellite Data Source 1.1.0. This release includes the following updates:

• Signed as a community plugin and available in Grafana Cloud and On-Premises.
• Updated Plugin configuration, types and README.
• Updated to the latest Grafana 9.4.3 toolkit.

We just started

The first release can retrieve

• Health information.
• List of Data Sources.
• Annotations and Alarms with filter capabilities.

Dashboard displays Data sources, annotations and health information of the Grafana instance.

Roadmap

We are planning to add most of the HTTP API endpoints for Dashboards, Users management, and Configuration. You are welcome to open feature requests in the repository.

Getting Started

The Business Satellite data source can be installed from the Grafana Catalog or utilizing the Grafana command line tool.

Install Business Suite plugins in Cloud, OSS, Enterprise. Getting started with the Business Suite.

For the latter, please use the following command.

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-grapi-datasource

Tutorial

Daria starts with Grafana widgets, explaining its limitations and how with the Business Satellite data source you can have flexible visualizations of anything stored in the Grafana central repository (settings, metadata, alerts, and annotations). She touches upon Grafana's transformations to show little data transformation tricks.

Towards the end, she demonstrates how the Business Satellite data source supports the regex pattern conditions to let you work with the cherry-picked data elements you need.

Easy access to Grafana backend using Business Satellite data source.

Release Notes

Features / Enhancements

• Update to Grafana 9.4.3 (#13)
• Update Bearer token plugin configuration (#13)
• Signed as community plugin (#14)
• Update Grafana types and description (#15)

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