Grafana

Grafana 7.5.x As previously mentioned, the tutorial for Grafana data source plugin development is all over the place. Even in the latest version of Grafana (8.x), the tutorial shows this as the way to write the query editor form: <div

In the previous post, we discussed how to write your own custom Grafana datasource plugin. We recently upgraded our backend to move from a username/password to certificate mode. This necessitated updating the datasource plugin to be able to make a request to the

Grafana version 7.x. As of this writing, the tutorial from Grafana on how to write datasource plugin is completely broken. I wasted an entire afternoon trying to decipher what they were saying in the tutorial versus the rest of the documentation. Executive summary: