gitlab-datasource

Grafana GitLab datasource

The GitLab datasource allows GitLab API data to be visually represented in Grafana dashboards.

GitLab API V4 (REST API)

This datasource uses the go-gitlab package, which is under active development.

Features

Backend

• Releases
• Commits
• Repositories
• Issues
• Organizations
• Labels
• Milestones
• Response Caching
• Deploys

Frontend

• Visualize queries
• Template variables
• Annotations

Caching

Caching on this plugin is not available yet.

Configuration

Options:

To create a new Access Token, navigate to Personal Access Tokens and click "Create personal access token".

Development

A data source backend plugin consists of both frontend and backend components.

Frontend

1. Install dependencies

yarn install

1. Build plugin in development mode or run in watch mode

yarn dev

or

yarn watch

1. Build plugin in production mode

yarn build

Backend

1. Update Grafana plugin SDK for Go dependency to the latest minor version:

go get -u github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go

1. Build backend plugin binaries for Linux, Windows and Darwin:

mage -v

1. List all available Mage targets for additional commands:

mage -l

Learn more

• Build a data source backend plugin tutorial
• Grafana documentation
• Grafana UI Library - UI components to help you build interfaces using Grafana Design System
• Grafana plugin SDK for Go