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