About the Grafana collector
Use this collector to harvest metadata for Grafana resources across the enterprise systems and make it searchable and discoverable in data.world.
Important
The Grafana collector can be run in the Cloud or on-premise using Docker or Jar files.
Note
The latest version of the Collector is 2.251. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.
What is cataloged
The collector catalogs the following information from Grafana.
Object | Information cataloged |
|---|---|
Dashboards | Owner, created by date, style, type, version, url, slug (human-friendly portion of the dashboard URL). |
Dashboard Panels | Title, description, type, associated dashboard, source if exists. |
Dashboard Annotations | Title, query text, source if exists. |
Dashboard Variables | Title, description, query text, source if exists. |
Data Source | Type, title, source json. |
Playlists | Title, dashboards that are part of the playlist. |
Folders | Title, dashboards that are part of the folder. |
Lineage for Grafana
The following lineage information is collected by the Grafana collector.
Object | Lineage available |
|---|---|
Dashboards | The collector identifies the associated annotations, variables, and any upstream data sources. |
Data source | The collector identifies downstream annotations, dashboards, and panels. |
Annotation | The collector identifies the associated upstream data source and the dashboards containing the annotation. |
Variable | The collector identifies the dashboard containing the variable. |
Panel | The collector identifies the associated dashboard annotations and variables, and upstream data sources. |
Grafana versions supported
The collector supports Grafana version 9.0.0.
Authentication supported for cataloging Grafana
The collector authenticates to Grafana using an API key. For the collector to run successfully, the API key needs to have Viewer role.