Transition plan to Grafana from AO about meshery

[yogi4]

• My understanding is that Grafana plugins are a way to extend Grafana itself. I am not sure if they will help borrow parts of Grafana into an external system.
  @girishranganathan, I was under the impression that we would be running a grafana server to render these dashboards, and using react to render that html.

However the other approaches would be sharing a snapshot of those dashboards or panels or using an image that was rendered ( we miss out on interactive panels).

P.S: There is high chance that I potentially misunderstood the requirements. I will sync up with you tomorrow to make sure I didn't deviate much :).

[yogi4]

@girishranganathan This is an exciting task. Thank you

[girishranganathan]

@yogi4, I just tried to add a little description. Feel free to slack me if you have any questions.
This task is language independent. Mainly interested in the approach.

[yogi4]

@girishranganathan Sorry it took me long to address this, and sorry about the confusion.

For Integration plan , in creating charts, grafana provides SDK for go lang

https://github.com/grafana-tools/sdk

For embedding charts , Grafana provides react controls
Grafana provides React Panels and integrations points

http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v6-0/#react-panels-query-editors
I'm in the process of creating a quick design for this.

[leecalcote]

@yogi4 nice. Is this an open source capability or “enterprise” version only? - Lee

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[yogi4]

@leecalcote This is opensource capability.

[girishranganathan]

@yogi4 good findings.

• The SDK is definitely a good find bcoz it covers several of their REST APIs. Hope it will provide a way to get the URL for a live chart which we can embed.

• Regarding the react stuff, I don't think this is the right thing we are looking for though. This is an excerpt from the link:

  Starting in v6.0 Panels and Data source plugins can be written in React using our published @grafana/ui sdk library.

  My understanding is that Grafana plugins are a way to extend Grafana itself. I am not sure if they will help borrow parts of Grafana into an external system.