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Wavefront Datasource Plugin for Grafana

This plugin enables Wavefront as a Grafana datasource supporting Grafana v6.

Development

  • git checkout
  • brew install node
  • npm install
  • Update files
  • npm run build

Installation

  • Copy the dist folder to your grafana plugin directory (ie: /usr/local/var/lib/grafana/plugins/wavefront-datasource)
  • Restart grafana

Adding Datasource via CLI

curl  -H "Content-Type: application/json" --user admin:admin 'http://localhost:3000/api/datasources' -X POST -d  '{"name":"wavefront","type":"wavefront-datasource","url":"https://try.wavefront.com","access":"direct","jsonData":{"wavefrontToken":"TOKEN_GOES_HERE"},"secureJsonFields":{}}'

Datasource support

  • Use graphical query builder, or text editor mode to create Wavefront Query Language expressions
  • Supports dashboard variables using Grafana standard syntax: $varname or [[varname]]
  • Supports dashboard templating via variables
  • Supports dynamic variables list via queries
  • Known limitations of dashboard variables:
    • Multi-mode is only supported when variable is used for templating (repeat rows / charts)
    • All mode (blank) is supported when variable is used for templating (repeat rows / charts)
    • All mode with * for value, when variable is used within a query
    • Value groups/tags is not supported via Grafana interface. Use query instead.
  • Dashboard variable query syntax:
    • metric lists: metrics: ts(...)
    • source lists: sources: ts(...)
    • source tag lists: sourceTags: ts(...)
    • matching source tag lists: matchingSourceTags: ts(...)
    • tag name lists: tagNames: ts(...)
    • tag value lists: tagValues(<tag>): ts(...)
    • The s at the end of each query type is optional
    • Support for all lowercase. You can use tagnames or tagNames, but not TAGNAMES.
    • whitespaces around the : is optional