Business Media
announcement
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 Media panel.
Please welcome the new name for the same functionality!
The Business Media panel is a Grafana plugin that renders PNG, JPG, GIF, MP4, WEBM, MP3, OGG, and PDF files encoded in the base64 format.
Requirements
The Business Media Panel version requirements for Grafana are as follows:
- Business Media Panel 5.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
- Base64 Image/PDF Panel 4.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
- Base64 Image/PDF Panel 3.X requires Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
- Base64 Image/PDF Panel 2.X requires Grafana 8.
- Base64 Image/PDF Panel 1.X requires Grafana 7.1.
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
Highlights
- The returned value can include base64 encoded content with or without a specified definition. The formats for the definition can look like
data:image/jpg;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
ordata:application/pdf;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
. - The file type is automatically determined based on the first base64 symbol if no definition is provided.
- If the data source returns more than one field of the
string
type, you can select the Field Name in the panel's display options. - You can fit image dimensions to the panel size, keep the original values, or adjust dimensions based on the manually supplied values.
- Allows adding a URL with a title to navigate to other dashboards when clicking the image. URL supports dashboard variables.
- Support for MP4 and WEBM video files with the definitions (
data:video/mp4;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
anddata:video/webm;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
) - Support for MP3 and OGG audio files with the efinitions (
data:audio/mp3;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
anddata:audio/ogg;base64,ENCODED-CONTENT
) - Provides a toolbar to download, zoom, and navigate between multiple images.
Documentation
Section | Description |
---|---|
Supported formats | Explains what formats are supported and how to display media files. |
Options | Describes all plugin options |
Features | Demonstrates panel capabilities. |
Release Notes | Stay up to date with the latest features and updates. |
Feedback
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License
Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.