From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Grafana plugins
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Grafana plugins
- [Instructor] Did you know that plugins allow you to extend the core functionality of Grafana with custom features, visualizations, and even applications? Well, they can. And Grafana has an extensive ecosystem of plugins, to extend capabilities. It's also possible to build your own custom plugins if you are so inclined. Plugins are categorized into three main types. Panel plugins, which offer different ways to visualize data. Think of maps, pie charts, lists, and so on. Data source plugins, which are useful to connect Grafana to any data source that you might need. And finally, app plugins, which are the most comprehensive plugin types. They can provide end-to-end monitoring solutions for specific use cases, like pre-configured dashboards and tailored visualizations. As an example, let's see what a custom plugin looks like. In the spirit of science, I have created a data source plugin that creates a visualization of a sine wave. I generated a new plugin using instructions found on…
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