GrafanaCONline Day 8: Introducing the new plugins platform in Grafana v7.0

GrafanaCONline Day 8 featured the introduction of a new plugins platform with the release of Grafana v7.0, aimed at allowing developers to create custom plugins more efficiently. Dominik Prokop from Grafana Labs detailed the new packages, including @grafana/ui, @grafana/data, @grafana/runtime, and @grafana/toolkit, and demonstrated a new declarative options API. The event also highlighted a presentation by Matti Paksula, who demonstrated using Grafana to visualize Chrome browsing data in near real time, emphasizing its use for tracking site performance metrics. The day's sessions included talks on Prometheus rate queries and strategies for organizational adoption of telemetry solutions, with opportunities for attendees to engage with the Grafana community on Slack.

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