Grafana 10 and increased test coverage in Business Satellite 2.0.0

We are happy to announce the release of the Business Satellite Data Source 2.0.0. This release includes the following updates:

• Added compatibility with Grafana 10.0.2 and deprecated support for Grafana 8.5.
• Requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
• Migrated to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 with the update of Node.js 18 and npm.
• Increased test coverage of the plugin's functionality up to 86%.

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

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 9 and Grafana 10

Features / Enhancements

• Update to Grafana 10.0.2 (#31, #40, #45, #47)
• Add Annotations Tutorial to README (#33)
• Add Authentication to Getting Started (#36)
• Add exception handling for Alert Rules in Annotations (#39)
• Update tests with testing-library/react (#42)
• Add tests for Components and datasource (#44)
• Migrate to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 (#45)
• Update to Node 18 and npm (#45)
• Add E2E Cypress testing (#48)

Volkov Labs Is Now Closed

Following our acquisition, Volkov Labs has officially ceased operations as of September 26, 2025. We are no longer accepting feedback, support requests, or partnership inquiries. The Business Suite for Grafana repositories have been archived on our GitHub organization, and no further development or support will be provided.

We are deeply grateful for the incredible support from our community and partners over the past four years.