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Company
Date Published
Author
Alasdair Brown
Word Count
720
Company Posts That Month
3
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Post removed?
No
Summary

Grafana, a popular tool for visualizing data, often faces challenges with sluggish dashboards due to its reliance on various data sources not optimized for rapid query responses, such as Snowflake. To address these issues, Tinybird has introduced a new Data Source plugin for Grafana, which allows users to leverage Tinybird's capabilities to ingest, query, and publish data quickly and effectively. This integration promises significantly faster dashboard performance by storing and versioning queries in Git and using Tinybird's infrastructure to handle data retrieval, with queries secured by Auth Tokens for flexible access control. The plugin is available for open-source Grafana setups as an unsigned plugin, with potential future listing in the Grafana Marketplace contingent on user feedback. Users can install the plugin via GitHub and configure it to connect to their Tinybird data, ensuring a more efficient and streamlined visualization experience.

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