1. Plugin development August 2019
Grafana Plugins
Plugin development
August 2019

2. Topics What is Grafana? Problem Description. Motivation.
General Approach
Skills
Contact Information
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3. What is Grafana? Open platform for analytics and monitoring
It is one of the leading open source software for time series analytics
The idea is no matter where your data is, or what kind of database it lives in, you can build dashboards seamlessly using Grafana.
Thousands of companies uses Grafana.
As the picture shows the advantages of Grafana over others
Connect to any data source/database
Present the data in any format
Free of use for both hosted and on premise solutions.
The following links shows you wide variety of dashboards.
Plugins currently available.
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4. Problem Description
Grafana has been the most utilized tool in the market in various domains
Grafana provides many visualization plugins out of the box but most of the time these are not sufficient.
We want to be able to build custom open source plugins that can be used by the community.
The following are the list of suggestions for the plugins
Venn Diagrams
Horizontal Bar Graphs
Automatic Table Pivoting
Sankey Diagrams
Sunburst Diagrams
Marimeko Chart
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5. Motivation
Many customers see the potential of Grafana and miss certain features that enterprise BI solution provides.
We will be contributing to the power of open source community by building plugins that might be very useful to the end customers.
Data Analytics has been made simple these days with many enterprise applications but most of them are very closed and cannot be customized, Grafana provides us a way to add to the arsenal of plugins.
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6. General Approach Follow plugin development guide provided by grafana.
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7. Venn Diagram
Venn Diagram shows visual representation of the data in a venn diagram format.
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8. Horizontal Bar Graphs Currently Grafana supports vertical bar graphs
We want to be able to build horizontal as well for better presenation.
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9. Table Pivoting Currently Grafana supports Plain ta
We want to automatically generate table pivot from the table data just like Excel table pivot feature.
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10. Sankey Diagrams
Sankey is also a panel that has been requested but no good implementations offered yet:
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11. Sun Burst Diagram
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12. Marimekko Chart
The following link should give some idea about this chart type.
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13. Skills
Mostly Java script
Go lang
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14. Contact Information
Aravind Chennuru
Software Architect
Enghouse Networks
Ashish Datwani
Professional Service Lead
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15. THANK YOU