Build a plugin

The easiest way to start developing Grafana plugins is to use the .

Open the terminal, and run the following command in your plugin directory:

• Build a data source plugin

Go further

Learn more about specific areas of plugin development.

If you’re looking to build your first plugin, check out these introductory tutorials:

• Build a data source plugin

Ready to learn more? Check out our other tutorials:

• Build a panel plugin with D3.js

Guides

• Add authentication for data source plugins
• Add support for Explore queries
• Build a logs data source plugin
• Error handling
• Development with local Grafana

Deepen your knowledge through a series of high-level overviews of plugin concepts:

• Data frames

UI library

Explore the many UI components in our Grafana UI library.

For inspiration, check out our plugin examples.

API reference

Metadata

Typescript

• Grafana Data
• Grafana Runtime
• Grafana UI

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