Grafana Integration Plugin

In case you don't know it, Grafana is an Open Source technology especially focused on the creation of dashboards for data sampling and representation. It can use different data sources, including time series databases such as Graphite, InfluxDB or OpenTSDB.

The Grafana project emerged in 2014 and has since built a large community of users who keep evolving its services and capabilities. Today it is one of the most used platforms in the field of IoT for this purpose, especially thanks to its ease of use and operation quality.

All this in a really simple way: the integration gives access to Grafana through the Thinger.io web console, and the configuration is simplified by the integration of InfluxDB as the system for the devices' data buckets.

All the information is available in the documentation of the plugin: see the Grafana plugin in the Marketplace.

You can have one of these private instances yourself within minutes. Once it is created, deploying a Grafana service is quite simple thanks to the Thinger.io plugins system: it downloads, deploys and manages plugins from a control dashboard, with just a couple of buttons.

In July 2020 a private instance cost less than 27 €/month; current plans are on the pricing page.

Thanks to this system, creating and managing plugins is really easy. We will continue to develop new plugins to extend the capabilities of Thinger.io in other directions, and to improve the management system, so that implementing custom solutions on top of the standard Thinger.io becomes easier and more scalable.

Grafana is still in the Marketplace today, opening from the console over device data alongside Prometheus and Alertmanager.