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Infinity data source plugin for Grafana

Infinity data source plugin for Grafana

The Infinity data source plugin allows you to query and visualize data from JSON, CSV, GraphQL, XML, and HTML endpoints.

📊 Overview

A universal data source plugin for pulling data from various systems into Grafana using existing REST APIs. Grafana’s go-to plugin for cases when a native plugin doesn’t exist yet.

Infinity datasource plugin for Grafana

Give it a try using Grafana Play
Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Infinity plugin demo.

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🎯 Key Features

The Infinity data source supports the following key features:
  • Bring data from multiple sources into Grafana
  • Flexible data manipulation with UQL, JSONata, GROQ
  • Various data formats such as JSON, CSV
  • Various authentication methods
    • Basic authentication
    • Bearer token authentication
    • API key authentication
    • OAuth passthrough
    • OAuth2 client credentials
    • OAuth2 JWT authentication
    • AWS/Azure/GCP authentication
    • Digest authentication
  • Alerting, recorded queries, shared dashboards, query caching
  • Utility variable functions
  • Grafana node graph panel, annotations, and so on

🎯 Supported data formats

JSON
Visualize JSON data
CSV / TSV
Visualize CSV, TSV or any delimited content
XML / HTML
Visualize XML / HTML data
GraphQL
Visualize data from GraphQL endpoints

⚠️ Known Limitations

Infinity plugin has the following known limitations:

  • Backend features such as alerting, shared dashboards, recorded queries or enterprise query caching only available in backend parsing mode.
  • Infinity is not designed for handling a huge amount of data. When inlining the data, make sure they are small snippets less than 1MB of size.
  • For a list of all known bugs, check GitHub.