devicehive / devicehive-grafana-datasource

DeviceHive datasource for Grafana

Grafana Datasource for DeviceHive

This datasource was created to connect Grafana with DeviceHive to track commands and notifications by particular device.

Based on Grafana Simple JSON Datasource plugin.

Getting started instruction

Manual adding the data source to Grafana (with rebuilding)

Prerequisites: You should have Grafana and npm installed and have permissions to copy data to Plugins folder(you could set it in grafana.ini in Paths->plugins).

1. Clone this repo to Plugins folder - git clone https://github.com/devicehive/devicehive-grafana-datasource.git;
2. Go into folder - cd devicehive-grafana-datasource;
3. Install all packages - npm install;
4. Build plugin - npm run build;
5. Restart Grafana - sudo service grafana-server restart;
6. Open Grafana in any browser;
7. Open the side menu by clicking the Grafana icon in the top header;
8. In the side menu click Data Sources;
9. Click the + Add data source in the top header;
10. Select DeviceHive from the Type dropdown;
11. Configure datasource.

Using the data source in Dashboards

1. Open Grafana in any browser;
2. Open the side menu by clicking the Grafana icon in the top header;
3. In the side menu find Dashboards and in context menu click + New;
4. Select Panel type from top header. Currently this plugin wirks fine with Graph and Singlestat types.
5. Click on Panel Title and choose Edit;
6. In Metrics tab choose your data source name from Panel Data Source;
7. Choose metric type from dropdown (command or notification);
8. Type path to variable inside command in input. (Remember you could use object and arrays inside it, f.e. parameters.testData[0].temperature);
9. Click time range burron in the top header on the right.
10. Type now-2m in From text field, choose refreshing option from dropdown and click Apply. (Remember cache is available for last 2 minutes only)

devicehive-grafana-datasource's Issues

Angular is deprecated - please migrate to React

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We have detected that your plugin might still be using AngularJS and recommend migrating it to React, so that it may continue to operate successfully in future versions of Grafana.

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Hello!

I have a problem with grafana. I configure the data source according to your tutorial, but when I build a new dashboard, I don't show any data points.