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Business Satellite

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The HTTP API 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 Satellite data source.

The HTTP API data source now is called the Business Satellite data source.
The HTTP API data source now is called the Business Satellite data source.

The Business Satellite Data Source for Grafana allows retrieving data from local and remote Grafana instances via HTTP API.

Requirements

  • Grafana 9 and Grafana 10 are required for major version 2.
  • Grafana 8.5 and Grafana 9+ are required for major version 1.

Getting Started

The Business Satellite 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 volkovlabs-grapi-datasource

Highlights

  • Connects to Local and Remote Grafana instances via HTTP API using API Keys and Tokens.
  • Allows getting Health information.
  • Allows retrieving Annotations, Alerts, and Data Sources.
Data Sources, Annotations and Health information from remote Grafana instance.
Data Sources, Annotations and Health information from remote Grafana instance.

The Business Satellite data source available requests.

The Business Satellite data source available requests.
The Business Satellite data source available requests.

Tutorial

Daria starts with Grafana widgets, explaining its limitations and how with the Business Satellite data source you can have flexible visualizations of anything stored in the Grafana central repository (settings, metadata, alerts, and annotations). She touches upon Grafana's transformations to show little data transformation tricks.

Towards the end, she demonstrates how the Business Satellite data source supports the regex pattern conditions to let you work with the cherry-picked data elements you need.

Easy access to Grafana backend using Business Satellite data source.

Documentation

SectionDescription
ConfigurationExplains configuration settings for the Data Source.
ProvisioningDemonstrates how to automatically provision the Data Source.
FeaturesDemonstrates panel features.
Release NotesStay up to date with the latest features and updates.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.

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