Business Variable
The Variable 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 Variable panel.
The Business 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 Business Variable panel offers many layouts with robust options, including an advanced TreeView layout.
With the latest updates, users can switch between dashboards, which adds to the satisfying user experience.
Requirements
- Business Variable panel 3.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
- Variable panel 1.X, 2.X requires Grafana 9.2 or Grafana 10.
Getting Started
The Business 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
Highlights
- Allows working with dashboard variables in the Table, Minimize, Button, and Slider display modes.
- The Table display mode can be configured into a TreeView.
- Displays statuses based on thresholds from data sources.
- Supports single and multi-value variables with the All option.
- Allows filtering values by pattern and selected favorites.
- Supports follow when scrolling (Sticky position).
- Supports multiple TreeViews using groups/tabs.
- Supports the input text (Input box) variables.
Tutorial
This video reviews the latest features introduced in Business Variable 3.0.0.
Daria demonstrates many new options for the Minimize mode, such as
- allow empty value,
- allow custom values,
- maximum visible values.
For the Table mode, she explains how to display total and selected counts. Further, Daria introduces a Slider mode and touches upon the TreeView layout improvements and advanced features.
For the all plugin options overview, please refer the other video.
We have many other tutorials that you can find helpful. You can review all related to this plugin tutorials here.
Documentation
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| Data Flow | Explains the Business Variable data flow |
| Display Modes | Explains different display modes |
| Features | Explains panel features |
| Tutorials | Easy to follow tutorials |
| Release Notes | The latest features and updates |
License
Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.
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