Grafana Plugins

Grafana plugins allow to add pyroscope flamegraph to your Grafana dashboard.

Installation Guide

1. Install the panel plugin
2. Install the datasource plugin
3. Open Grafana and go to Configuratin -> Plugins
4. Check that plugins are available
5. Set up data source plugin:
   • Configuration -> Data Sources -> Add data source
   • click on pyroscope-datasource
   • Specify Pyroscope host in Endpoint field:
6. Set up panel plugin:
   • Add an empty panel on your dashboard
   • Select pyroscope-panel from Visualization list
   • Under panel view in Query tab select pyroscope-datasource
   • In Application name input specify app name
   • Click Apply

Congratulations! Now you can monitor application flamegraph on your Grafana dashboard!

Running latest plugin versions

Grafana plugin approval takes some time, so if you want to run the latest versions you can do by:

Running grafana with the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable with (broken in 2 lines for readability:)

https://github.com/pyroscope-io/grafana-panel-plugin/releases/download/v1.1.0/pyroscope-panel-1.1.0.zip;pyroscope-panel,https://github.com/pyroscope-io/grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/download/v1.1.0/pyroscope-datasource-1.1.0.zip;pyroscope-datasource

You can get the correct URLS by looking at our releases in the grafana-datasource-plugin repo and the grafana-panel-plugin repo

For example:

GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=https://github.com/pyroscope-io/grafana-panel-plugin/releases/download/v1.1.0/pyroscope-panel-1.1.0.zip;pyroscope-panel,https://github.com/pyroscope-io/grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/download/v1.1.0/pyroscope-datasource-1.1.0.zip;pyroscope-datasource

Using variables

Since version 1.1.0 of the pyroscope-datasource we support querying using variables.

For example: