grafana-simple-sql-datasource
Allows querying SQL based datasources like SQL Server.
Usage
Currently the plugin requires a proxy server running to communicate with the database.
Install sqlproxyserver
- Run
npm install
at thedist/serverside
folder to install all dependencies - Run npm install on the plugin directory
- Run server side code
dist/serverside/sqlproxyserver.js
- Test on your browser
http://myserver:port/con=mssql://user:name@server/database
you must get a{"status":"sucess"}
response
Add new datasource Add a new datasource to Grafana and set the url to:
http://myserver:port/con=mssql://user:name@server/database
Where:
- myserver:port : Is the server where
sqlproxyserver
is running - con: Specifies the sql connection string
SQL Databases
Currently supported SQL databases
SQL Server
SQL Server connection is managed by the mssqp package https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql
Features
Following features has been implemented
Metrics
It is possible to define two different types: timeseries
and table
Annotation
Annotation querires must return the following fields:
- title: Annotation header
- text: Annotation description
- tags: Annotation tags
- time: Annotation time
Notes
Time
UTC and Localtime. Currently you must specify if time returned by the query is UTC or local. The plugin will convert localtime to UTC in order to be correctly renderer.
Template
You can use $from
and $to
to refer to selected time period in your queries like:
SELECT field FROM table WHERE datestart >= '$from' AND dateStart <= '$to'
Thanks to
Grafana team and @bergquist