The GitHub data source plugin for Grafana, introduced in 2020, enables organizations to effectively visualize and analyze their GitHub activity through Grafana dashboards, offering insights into metrics such as daily GitHub use, reported issues, and more. Designed to address the limitations of GitHub's web interface, the plugin utilizes the GitHub API to fetch and display data, serving users across various roles like SREs, DevOps engineers, and product managers. It supports multiple query types including commits, issues, contributors, and pull requests, and introduces features like caching to improve performance and GitHub App authentication for enhanced security. Users can leverage variables and macros for dynamic queries and annotations to provide context in visualizations. The plugin is available on Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and Grafana OSS, and is maintained by Grafana Labs. Comprehensive documentation and pre-configured dashboards are provided to facilitate ease of use, with ongoing feedback encouraged to enhance future iterations of the plugin.