Business Media Panel 5.0.0

We are excited to announce the release of the Business Media Panel 5.0.0. This major release includes the following updates:

• Plugin rebranding, the new name is the Business Media Panel.
• Removed support for Grafana 9. Requires Grafana 10 and Grafana 11.
• Added compatibility with Grafana 10.4.1.
• Added the ability to customize the No Results message.
• Added infinity play option.

Grafana Plugins catalog

The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on April 3, 2024.

Business Media Panel 5.0.0 for Grafana.

Business Media Panel

The Base64 Media panel joins the Business Suite for Grafana and with that gets an elevated name. Now, the same amazing open source plugin is called the Business Calendar panel.

Please welcome the new name for the same functionality!

The Base64 Image/PDF panel now is called the Business Media panel.

Downloads increase

On March 8, 2024, the Base64 plugin received a significant download number increase. Right now this plugin is at an impressive 1.81M total downloads mark with an average daily downloads around 18K.

Thank you for your continuous support of our work. The graph below is simply beautiful and very inspiring to have.

The Base64 plugin was downloaded 1.81M times.

Grafana 10 and Grafana 11

warning

This is a breaking change.

Our plugins always follow the latest Grafana versions and stay compatible with the most recent releases. That means, however, that we have to sunset the support of obsolete releases.

The latest Base64 5.0.0 fully supports Grafana 10 and the upcoming 11 releases.

Customize the No Results message

We added a new option where you can specify a message to display instead of the image in case of loading problems or no data error. By default, the message says "Nothing to display..."

Customize the No Results message using a new option.

Infinity play option

This new option allows you to play video and audio files in an endless loop.

New option allows to display files in an endless loop.

File Upload video

Below is one of our YouTube videos with a use-case review. It features three open source plugins that come together on one Grafana dashboard to provide a solution for a long-standing task - file upload using a Grafana dashboard and immediate display of the uploaded files.

The plugins used in the example are:

• The Data Manipulation to provide with the File type element for file upload.
• The Variable panel to provide a choice of what file to display.
• The Base64 panel to display a selected file.

The Base64 plugin is an essential element in this example.

File Upload using Grafana dashboard.

Getting Started

You can install Business Media Panel 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

YouTube Tutorial

Business Media Panel is a Grafana plugin that renders PNG, JPG, GIF, MP4, WEBM, MP3, OGG, and PDF files encoded in the Base64 format.

Display images and PDF on Grafana using Business Media panel.

Release Notes

Breaking changes

• Requires Grafana 10 and Grafana 11

Features / Enhancements in 5.0.0

• Added the ability to customize the alert message (#96)
• Updated to Grafana 10.4.1 (#97)
• Remove ArrayVector deprecated in Grafana 11 (#99)

Features / Enhancements in 4.2.0

• Update ESLint configuration and refactoring (#92)
• Update dependencies and Actions (#94)
• Add infinity play option (#93)

Feedback

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