Grafana Data Source Backend Plugin Template

This template is a starting point for building Grafana Data Source Backend Plugins

What is Grafana Data Source Backend Plugin?

Grafana supports a wide range of data sources, including Prometheus, MySQL, and even Datadog. There’s a good chance you can already visualize metrics from the systems you have set up. In some cases, though, you already have an in-house metrics solution that you’d like to add to your Grafana dashboards. Grafana Data Source Plugins enables integrating such solutions with Grafana.

For more information about backend plugins, refer to the documentation on Backend plugins.

Getting started

A data source backend plugin consists of both frontend and backend components.

Frontend

1. Install dependencies

   yarn install

2. Build plugin in development mode or run in watch mode

   yarn dev

   or

   yarn watch

3. Build plugin in production mode

   yarn build

Backend

1. Update Grafana plugin SDK for Go dependency to the latest minor version:

   go get -u github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go
   go mod tidy

2. Build backend plugin binaries for Linux, Windows and Darwin:

   mage -v

3. List all available Mage targets for additional commands:

   mage -l

Learn more

• Build a data source backend plugin tutorial
• Grafana documentation
• Grafana Tutorials - Grafana Tutorials are step-by-step guides that help you make the most of Grafana
• Grafana UI Library - UI components to help you build interfaces using Grafana Design System
• Grafana plugin SDK for Go