Grafana Plugin (Beta)

Overview

The Sift Grafana Plugin allows you to create Grafana dashboards from a Sift datasource. The Assets, Channels, and Calculated Channels that are available in the Sift app are also available to be used in Grafana

Installation

• Download the plugin via the Sift provided link
• Unzip the plugin to your Grafana Plugin directoryhttps://grafana.com/grafana/latest/administration/plugin-management/#install-a-packaged-plugin

Sift Data Source

Add a new Data source by entering the API url and your API key.

Channel Queries

The time series data in Sift is queryable by Asset and Channel. The simplest way to query a Channel is to select an Asset from the dropdown and then select a Channel:

For more advanced use cases, Assets and Channels can be specified with regex queries:

Calculated Channel Queries

More complex queries can be written using SIft's Calculated Channel feature set. This behavior mirrors the behavior in the Sift application.

With Calculated Channels an Asset must be specified and then Channels can be selected as references for an Expression. Assets and Channels can use Regex to be specified or the single select dropdowns

Group by Run

If it's important to distinguish Channels between Runs, the “Group By Run” checkbox will include the run in the Grafana key and create a different line for each channel/run combo:

Variables

A Sift Variable can be added to dashboards which will allow for selecting Assets that the dashboard applies to. All the Channel selections will apply to each Asset selected