We are happy to announce the release of the Variable Panel 1.7.0. This release includes the following updates:
- Added the Button display mode.
- Added group selection for the Tree View layout (beta).
- Added support of the Grafana key-value variable format for the Table display mode.
The plugin was updated in Grafana Catalog on August 11, 2023.
Button display mode
In the Button display mode, you get horizontally positioned variable values instead of them being placed from top to bottom. Optionally, you can set up color-coding rules in the Thresholds section on the right.
Group selection
This parameter is still under development and now is available in the Beta version. Try it out with care.
In the Layout section, for the Tree View, we added a new parameter, 'Allow group selection'. When it is enabled, choosing a root of the group will automatically select all elements belonging to this group.
Key-values format in Variables
A Grafana variable can be composed of a key and value to make it possible to join data sets by IDs(key) while displaying user-friendly names(value).
Starting from this release, the Variable panel in the Table view supports this feature.
In the illustration below, screen 1, the city variable is created with three key-value pairs.
Chicago:1, New York:2, Tampa:3
Screen 2 is a dashboard view where an end-user sees only city names. After the selection is made (here, New York:2), the variable carries a value equal to 2.
From there the city variable's value can be used in the queries for other panels, screen 3.
Getting Started
The Variable panel can be installed from the Grafana Catalog or utilizing the Grafana command line tool.
For the latter, please use the following command.
grafana-cli plugins install volkovlabs-variable-panel
YouTube Tutorial
The Variable panel builds on top of the regular dashboard variables. It allows you to have dashboard filters in a separate panel which you can place anywhere on the dashboard.
The variable panel offers you single- and multi-variable layouts along with an advanced Tree View.
Release Notes
Features / Enhancements
- Add variables with text and value in Table/Tree View (#57)
- Add Button View (#59)
- Add group selection (#58)
- Update dependencies to Grafana 10.0.3 (#60)
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