# Use Grafana Plugins

The following plugins are packaged with the Managed Grafana instances and do not require additional installation. These are updated on a regular basis.


## Panel Plugins
* AJAX - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/ryantxu-ajax-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/ryantxu/ajax-panel)

    - A general way to load external content into a Grafana dashboard.

* Alert list - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/alertlist/) | [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v7.5/panels/visualizations/alert-list-panel/)

    * Allows you to display alerts on a dashboard. The list can be configured to show either the current state of your alerts or recent alert state changes.

* Annotation list - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/annotations/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/tree/main/public/app/plugins/panel/annolist)

    * Shows user annotations in Grafana database.

* Bar chart - [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/bar-chart/)

    * Allows you to graph categorical data.

* Bar gauge - [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/bar-gauge-panel/)

    * Simplifies your data by reducing every field to a single value. You choose how Grafana calculates the reduction. This panel can show one or more bar gauges depending on how many series, rows, or columns your query returns.

* Candlestick - [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/candlestick/)

    * Shows a chart that is typically used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency.

* Canvas - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/canvas/)

    * Included with Grafana. Canvas visualizations are extensible form-built panels that allow you to explicitly place elements within static and dynamic layouts. Similar to UI and web design tools you may have used before.

* Carpet plot - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/petrslavotinek-carpetplot-panel/)

    * Receives data series and divides all the data into individual buckets.

* Clock - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-clock-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/clock-panel)

    * Shows the current time or a countdown and updates every second.

* D3 Gauge - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/briangann-gauge-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/briangann/grafana-gauge-panel)

    * Provides a D3-based gauge panel for Grafana 6.x/7.x

* Dashboard list - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/dashlist/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/reference/dashlist/)

    * Allows you to display dynamic links to other dashboards. The list can be configured to use starred dashboards, a search query and/or dashboard tags.

* Diagram - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/jdbranham-diagram-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/jdbranham/grafana-diagram)

    * Provides a way to create flow-charts, sequence diagrams, and Gantt charts by leveraging the mermaid.js library.

* Discrete - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/natel-discrete-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/NatelEnergy/grafana-discrete-panel)

    * Shows discrete values in a horizontal graph, plotting state transitions.

* FlowCharting - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/agenty-flowcharting-panel/) | [Docs](https://algenty.github.io/flowcharting-repository/)

    * Displays complex diagrams using the online graphing library draw.io.

* Gauge

    * Standard gauge visualization.

* Geomap

    * Included with Grafana.

* Getting Started

    * Included with Grafana.

* Graph - [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/panels-visualizations/visualizations//)

    * Included with Grafana, provides a very rich set of graphing options.

* Heatmap - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/heatmap-new/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/features/panels/heatmap/)

    * Allows you to view histograms over time. The legacy Heatmap plugin is also still available.

* Histogram - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/histogram/)

    * Provides a histogram for time series data.

* Logs

    * Included with Grafana.

* News - [Grafana Docs](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/news-panel/)

    * This panel visualization displays an RSS feed. By default, it displays articles from the Grafana Labs blog.

* Node Graph

    * Included with Grafana.

* Panel / Plotly - [GitHub](https://github.com/NatelEnergy/grafana-plotly-panel)

    * Render metrics using the plot.ly JavaScript framework.

* Pie Chart - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-piechart-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/piechart-panel)

    * Adding pie charts to your dashboard.

* Plugin list - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/pluginlist/)

    * Included with Grafana.

* Singlestat Math - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/blackmirror1-singlestat-math-panel/)

    * A modification of the native single stat panel to support math functions across series.

* Stat - [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/reference/singlestat/)

    * Included with Grafana, allows you to show the one main summary stat of a SINGLE series.

* State timeline

    * Included with Grafana.

* Status history

    * Provides a periodic status history.

* Status Panel - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/vonage-status-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/Vonage/Grafana_Status_panel)

    * Use as a centralized view for the status of component in a glance.

* Statusmap - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/flant-statusmap-panel/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/flant/grafana-statusmap)

    * Shows discrete statuses of multiple targets over time.

* Table - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/table/)

    * Supports both multiple modes for time series as well as for table, annotation and raw JSON data. It also provides date formatting and value formatting and coloring options.

* Text - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/text/)

    * A simple panel that displays text. The source text is written in markdown so that you can format it.

* Time series

    * Allows for visualizing time series data.

* Welcome

    * Included with Grafana.

* Worldmap Panel - [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/worldmap-panel)

    * Displays time series data or geohash data from Elasticsearch overlaid on a world map.

* XY Chart - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/text/)

    * Native plugin that supports arbitrary X vs Y in graphs.


## Data Source Plugins
* Altinity plugin for ClickHouse® - [GitHub](https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-grafana)

    * Provides support for ClickHouse® as a backend database.

* Azure Monitor - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/azure-monitor-datasource)

    * Provides a single source for monitoring Azure resources.

* CloudWatch - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/cloudwatch/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/cloudwatch/)

    * Build dashboards for your CloudWatch metrics.

* Elasticsearch - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/elasticsearch/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/elasticsearch/)

    * Performs Elasticsearch queries to visualize logs or metrics stored in Elasticsearch. Annotate your graphs with log events stored in Elasticsearch.

* GitHub - [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/github-datasource)

    * Allows GitHub API data to be visually represented in Grafana dashboards.

* Google BigQuery - [GitHub](https://github.com/doitintl/bigquery-grafana)

    * Provides support for BigQuery as a backend database.

* Google Sheets - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-googlesheets-datasource/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/google-sheets-datasource)

    * Visualize your Google Spreadsheets in Grafana.

* Graphite - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/graphite/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/graphite/)

    * Quickly navigate the metric space, add functions, change function parameters and more.

* InfluxDB® - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/influxdb/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb/)

* Instana - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/instana-datasource/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/instana/instana-grafana-datasource)

    * Shows metrics from Instana AI-Powered APM for dynamic applications.

* Jaeger

    * Open source, end-to-end distributed tracing.

* Loki

    * A built in data source that allows you to connect to the Loki logging service.

* Microsoft SQL Server

    * Grafana ships with a built-in Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) data source plugin that allows you to query and visualize data from any Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or newer.

* MySQL - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/mysql/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/mysql/)

    * Allows you to query any visualize data from a MySQL compatible database.

* OpenSearch® - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-opensearch-datasource/)

    * Runs many types of simple or complex OpenSearch® queries to visualize logs or metrics stored in OpenSearch. Annotate your graphs with log events stored in OpenSearch.

* OpenTSDB - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/opentsdb/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/opentsdb/)

    * OpenTSDB is a scalable, distributed time series database.

* Pagerduty - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/xginn8-pagerduty-datasource/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/xginn8/grafana-pagerduty)

    * Annotations-only datasource for Pagerduty events.

* PostgreSQL® - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/postgres/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/postgres/)

    * Allows you to query and visualize data from a PostgreSQL compatible database.

* Prometheus - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/prometheus/) | [Grafana Docs](https://docs.grafana.org/datasources/prometheus/)

    * Work with the open-source service monitoring system and time series database.

* Prometheus AlertManager - [GitHub](https://github.com/camptocamp/grafana-prometheus-alertmanager-datasource)

 * Allows you to use the AlertManager API of Prometheus to create dashboards in Grafana.

* SimpleJson - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-simple-json-datasource/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource)

* Stackdriver / Google Cloud Monitoring

    * Data source for Google’s monitoring service (formerly named, and listed as, Stackdriver).

* Tempo

    * High volume, minimal dependency trace storage. OSS tracing solution from Grafana Labs.

* TestData DB

    * Generates test data in different forms.

* Zipkin

    * Data source for the distributed tracing system.


## Other Plugins
* Grafana Image Renderer (Renderer) - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-image-renderer/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer)

    * Handles rendering panels and dashboards to PNGs using a headless browser (Chromium).

* Traces (Application) - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-enterprise-traces-app/)

 * Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET) is a commercial offering based on Tempo, and allows you to deploy a highly-scalable, simple, and reliable traces cluster in your own data center.

* worldPing - [GitHub](https://github.com/raintank/worldping-app)

    * Continually tests, stores and alerts on the global performance and availability of your Internet applications so you can pinpoint issues.

* Zabbix (Application) - [Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/alexanderzobnin/grafana-zabbix)

    * Visualizes your Zabbix metrics.