Grafana dashboard

Introduction

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  From the left menu choose Data sources.

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  Finally the infinity after installing the plugin. Note the permissions of the folders.

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  Creating a Dashboard is an easy task.

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  Add the csv

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  Add the csv file from localhost using nginx.

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  The Table works for the provided URL.

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  You can rename the fields and choose the one to be displayed

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  Convert field types to numeric. It likes to have them as strings.

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  Divide the time by 1000 to convert from ms to seconds.

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  Finally the xy-plot works. Note the change of axis.

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  Set autoupdate. Note that zooming is lost.

Grafana is a open source analytics application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.

• https://github.com/grafana/grafana
• https://grafana.com/get/
• https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/

Running Grafana

1. Start Grafana server (grafana-server.exe). My installation is at C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\bin
2. Use web browser to go to http://localhost:3000/login
   • Default name and pwd is admin
3. Create a data source. Connections -> Data sources. Enter Infinity
   • However, the plugin needs to be installed first: grafana-cli plugins install yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource. The permission of the folders have to be changed. Perhaps should allow all. Then restart grafana by:
     1. Open the Services app.
     2. Right-click on the Grafana service.
     3. In the context menu, click Restart.
4. Create a dashboard
5. Add visualization. Add the yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource data source
   • In the query section at the bottom, choose Type: CSV.
     1. Ensure the source is URL and the method is GET.
     2. For the URL, enter https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/developer-advocacy/refs/heads/main/projects/Visualize%20CSV/data/worldcities.csv, which links to a CSV file full of data about world cities and their locations.
     3. In the upper right-hand corner of the screen, choose Table as the visualization type.
6. Map is actually Geomap.

Examples

CSV Data

• https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource/ Visualize data from JSON, CSV, XML, GraphQL and HTML endpoints.
  • https://grafana.com/blog/2025/02/05/how-to-visualize-csv-data-with-grafana/
  • Documentation https://grafana.com/docs/plugins/yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource/latest/
  • CSV Docs https://grafana.com/docs/plugins/yesoreyeram-infinity-datasource/latest/csv/
• https://grafana.com/docs/plugins/marcusolsson-csv-datasource/latest/ in maintenance mode

GIS

Geomap

Window functions

https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-v11-0-0-why-windows-function-mode-is-missing-in-data-transformation-menu/129571

Logs from Serial port

Use PuTTY and save (stream) logs to a file. Works like a charm. The notepad++ can be set to update automatically without asking (Ctrl-R reloads the file) by using Settings -> Preferences -> MISC. -> Update silently, but it still need Ctrl-R to reload the file.

However, Grafana cannot update a local file. Instead use a web server (eg nginx) to serve the CSV files over http and then use http url (eg http://localhost/my-csv-app/my-csv-file.csv).

NGinx

See https://medium.com/@jasonrigden/how-to-host-a-static-website-with-nginx-8b2dd0c5b301

• Download, run
  • start nginx and check with tasklist.exe. It should show two nginx instances. One of the processes is the master process and another is the worker process.
• Goto address http://localhost/ and the file location is at nginx -> html.
• Check config.
  • nginx.conf is important. See location which states that root is html.