Business Input

announcement

The Static data source joins the Business Suite for Grafana and with that gets an elevated name. Now, the same amazing open source plugin is called the Business Input data source.

The Static data source now is called the Business Input data source.

The Business Input Data Source is a plugin for Grafana that allows storing and emulating your data.

Requirements

• Business Input data source version 4.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
• Static data source version 3.X requires Grafana 9.2 or Grafana 10.
• Static data source version 2.X requires Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
• Static data source version 1.X requires Grafana 7.3.

Getting Started

The Business Input data source 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 marcusolsson-static-datasource

Highlights

• Create static visualizations that don't depend on a specific data source.
• Allows specifying values manually or using the JavaScript Values Editor code.
• Build custom query responses for testing or developing panel plugins.
• Store data and images directly in the dashboard.
• Supports variables in the text fields.
• Uses Number input for Number, Date Time Picker for Time fields.
• Uses Text Area for String inputs with more than 100 symbols.
• Allows to temporarily hide values for specific fields.

Display Pie Charts based on the data from the Static Data Source.

Tutorial

In this 6-minute tutorial, Daria explains what the plugin does. She demonstrates how to work with its parameters and use it for visualization panel discovery, data storage, and troubleshooting.

Daria still references the plugin using its old name. The newer version of the plugin review video is in the works and will be published as soon as it is available.

Mimic any data with the Business Input data source.

Documentation

Section	Description
Provisioning	Demonstrates how to automatically provision the Data Source.
Variables	Demonstrates how to use variables.
Panels	Demonstrates how to use data source with panels.
Release Notes	Stay up to date with the latest features and updates.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.

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