How to visualize workflows and business processes in Grafana: Introducing the Graphviz panel

Grafana has introduced a Graphviz panel in private preview for Grafana 12.3 and later, enabling users to visualize workflows, business processes, service dependencies, network topologies, and decision trees alongside live observability data. Built on the open-source Graphviz project, the panel uses the DOT graph-description language to automatically arrange nodes and connections, avoiding the manual layout work required by canvas-based diagrams and replacing the discontinued FlowCharting plugin. It supports Builder, Code, and Query modes, allowing diagrams to be created visually, written directly in DOT, or generated dynamically from data sources such as service registries, Terraform state, or Kubernetes topology. Live query data can control node colors, labels, edge widths, tooltips, data links, and dashboard-variable-driven views, helping teams identify bottlenecks and unhealthy components in contexts such as payment pipelines, microservice maps, network weathermaps, incident runbooks, CI/CD pipelines, telemetry flows, and Shopify customer segmentation. Grafana Assistant can also generate DOT from natural-language requests, while the plugin’s automatic layout and live updates aim to make operational and business flows easier to understand from a shared dashboard.

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