Grafana Chartwerk Panel (beta)

Grafana Chartwerk Panel renders metrics using Chartwerk libraries. For now, it can render as Gauge. We are working on adding new visualizations.

Features

• 3 types of visualizations:
  • Gauge
  • Line Chart (coming soon)
  • Bar Chart (coming soon)
• Gauge: dynamic thresholds and min / max
• Gauge: conditional icons displaying
• Gauge: reversed direction

How to use

1. Create a new panel and select Chartwerk as the visualization
2. Add queries with a unique alias
3. Go to the Options Tab and setup panel:

• Choose visualization type (Gauge is the only available option for now)
• Select metric in the Value -> Metric dropdown (the first query metric will be used as a default one)

Demo

see demo

Options [Gauge]

• Visualization:
  • Pod: option to select chart type
• Value:
  • Metric: select metric query from dropdown
• Extemum:
  • Min:
    • type number for static minimum value OR
    • enable "Use metric" toggle switch to select metric as minimun
    • default value: 0
  • Max:
    • type number for static maximum OR
    • enable "Use metric" toggle switch to select metric as maximum
    • default value: maximum of metric query

Installation

Linux / Mac OS X

• Navigate to either:

  • <GRAFANA_PATH>/data/plugins (when installed from tarball or source)
  • or /var/lib/grafana/plugins (when installed from .deb/.rpm package)

• Download Chartwerk panel

wget https://gitlab.com/chartwerk/grafana-chartwerk-panel/uploads/e8782155489bec4c216048e4d4e1f618/corpglory-chartwerk-panel-0.4.1.zip

• Unpack downloaded files

unzip -u corpglory-chartwerk-panel-0.4.1.zip -d corpglory-chartwerk-panel

• Restart grafana-server
  • For grafana installed via Standalone Linux Binaries:
    • Stop any running instances of grafana-server
    • Start grafana-server by: $GRAFANA_PATH/bin/grafana-server
  • For grafana installed via Package Manager:
    • type in systemctl restart grafana-server

Grafana in Docker

You can install Chartwerk panel to Grafana in Docker passing it as environment variable (as described in Grafana docs)

docker run \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=https://gitlab.com/chartwerk/grafana-chartwerk-panel/uploads/e8782155489bec4c216048e4d4e1f618/corpglory-chartwerk-panel-0.4.1.zip;corpglory-chartwerk-panel" \
  grafana/grafana