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Padding removed, Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 3.5.0

Mikhail Volkov
Founder at Volkov Labs, Grafana Champion

We are excited to announce the release of the Business Media panel 3.5.0. This maintenance release includes the following updates:

  • Removed the panel padding, allowing you to use the entire area of the panel.
  • Updated workflows and compatibility with the latest Grafana 9.4.3 toolkit.

No Padding​

Removed the panel padding, which allows you to use the entire panel area for displaying images and PDF or media files.

How to use the plugin to display Base64-encoded PNG images.
How to use the plugin to display Base64-encoded PNG images.

MQTT Data source​

Business Media panel works with any data source. You can also use it with the MQTT data source to display the live camera feed.

Getting Started​

The Business Media panel can be installed from the Grafana Plugins catalog or using 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-image-panel

Tutorial​

In this tutorial, Daria goes over all plugin options, version 5.0.0.

You will learn how to display images, video, audio and PDF files on your Grafana dashboard. She demonstrates how to set up the toolbar, URL links, image scaling and other parameters.

Display images and PDF on Grafana using Business Media panel 5.0.0.

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

Release Notes​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated CI and release workflows (#64).
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.4.3 (#65)
  • Set the NoPadding parameter to use the entire area of the panel (#66).

We’d Love to Hear From You!​

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