Infinity (Plugin) and Beyond: The Future of Grafana's Data Source Ecosystem
summary
Infinity is a universal Grafana data source that pulls from any REST endpoint and parses JSON, CSV, XML or HTML, offers frontend UQL and a backend parser for alerting and caching, handles pagination and auth (basic, OAuth, JWT, AWS SigV4), and ships post-processing and macros for dashboard context. Community examples show TFL, HTML scraping, Keycloak OAuth and stock candlesticks; the plugin hits 12M downloads and is now officially maintained by Grafana Labs while the project sets a 200 native data sources goal for the year.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction - Big tent philosophy
- 1:25Journey to 150 datasources
- 3:23Tools that we changed
- 5:19Need for more plugins from 150 to infinity
- 6:00What is Infinity plugin?
- 7:55What makes Infinity a versatile plugin?
- 8:30Infinity: response formats
- 12:22Infinity: Post-processing options
- 16:14Infinity: Authentication options
- 17:30Examples of how others use Infinity
- 26:40Going beyond infinity - goals and challenges and scaling up plugin development
- 29:55What to expect in the future
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