Padding removed, Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 3.5.0

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.

Grafana Catalog

The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on March 8, 2023.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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