jorgelbg / grafana-meta-queries

Grafana plugin for calculating time period metrics like week over week, month over month and year over year etc.

Meta Queries Plugin for Grafana:

Meta Queries plugin is built as a data source plugin and can be used in conjunction with other data source to show computed metrics like Moving Average, Time Shift.

Installation

Need to clone this repo into your grafana plugins directory (default /var/lib/grafana/plugins if your installing grafana with package). Restart grafana-server and the plugin should be automatically detected and used.

git clone [e-mail]:GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries.git
sudo service grafana-server restart

Usage

1. Create a new datasource and select MetaQueries as the desired type.

2. And new panel and set the MetaQueries as the data source.

3. On the top right corner, Click on Add query. Select the desired data source and specify the query as desired (add a few more).

4. Add a MetaQueries query, and preform the wanted manipulation (examples listed below) The Reference to the queries should be made both by query and it's metrics names. For example, from query A we'd like to work against metric calls Test, the refferer should be A['test'].

Examples

Arithmetic

Lets you perform arithmetic operations on one or more existing queries.

Moving Average

Time Shift

Compatibility

Grafana Meta Queries plugin 0.0.1 and above are supported for Grafana: 4.x.x

Supports Nesting

• Moving average of moving average
• Moving average of time shift
• Time shift of Moving average
• Time shift of Time Shift

Known issue

• Moving average on arithmetic is not supported
• TimeShift on arithmetic is not supported

Status

Lot of features might still not be implemented. Your contributions are welcome.