Supercharging Grafana with Community Plugins

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Supercharging Grafana with Community Plugins

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This talk was presented at the Grafana & Friends Barcelona meetup, a joint meetup with the Barcelona Apache Kafka community.

Grafana is powerful on its own, but its true potential lies in its vibrant community of plugin developers. In this talk, we’ll explore how community plugins extend Grafana’s core functionality, enabling you to connect to a broader range of data sources and visualize your data in new ways. As a practical example, we’ll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin and demonstrate how it enables you to directly query and visualize Kafka topic data in your dashboards, eliminating the need for intermediate storage or external services.

Demo repository: https://github.com/thopewell/grafana-kafka-datasource-demo

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