Grafana Foundation SDK – TypeScript

A set of tools, types and builder libraries for building and manipulating Grafana objects in TypeScript.

[!NOTE] This branch contains types and builders generated for Grafana v10.4.x. Other supported versions of Grafana can be found at this repository's root.

Installing

yarn add '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk@~10.4.0-cogv0.0.x.1713478841'

Example usage

More examples can be found at the repository root.

Building a dashboard

import { DashboardBuilder, RowBuilder } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/dashboard';
import { DataqueryBuilder } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/prometheus';
import { PanelBuilder } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/timeseries';

const builder = new DashboardBuilder('[TEST] Node Exporter / Raspberry')
  .uid('test-dashboard-raspberry')
  .tags(['generated', 'raspberrypi-node-integration'])

  .refresh('1m')
  .time({from: 'now-30m', to: 'now'})
  .timezone('browser')

  .withRow(new RowBuilder('Overview'))
  .withPanel(
    new PanelBuilder()
      .title('Network Received')
      .unit('bps')
      .min(0)
      .withTarget(
        new DataqueryBuilder()
          .expr('rate(node_network_receive_bytes_total{job="integrations/raspberrypi-node", device!="lo"}[$__rate_interval]) * 8')
          .legendFormat("{{ device }}")
      )
  )
;

console.log(JSON.stringify(builder.build(), null, 2));

Defining a custom query type

While the SDK ships with support for all core datasources and their query types, it can be extended for private/third-party plugins.

To do so, define a type and a builder for the custom query:

// customQuery.ts
import { Builder, Dataquery } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/cog';

export interface CustomQuery {
    // refId and hide are expected on all queries
    refId?: string;
    hide?: boolean;


    // query is specific to the CustomQuery type
    query: string;

    // Let cog know that CustomQuery is a Dataquery variant
    _implementsDataqueryVariant(): void;
}

export const defaultCustomQuery = (): CustomQuery => ({
    query: "",
    _implementsDataqueryVariant() {},
});

export class CustomQueryBuilder implements Builder<Dataquery> {
    private readonly internal: CustomQuery;

    constructor(query: string) {
        this.internal = defaultCustomQuery();
        this.internal.query = query;
    }

    build(): CustomQuery {
        return this.internal;
    }

    refId(refId: string): this {
        this.internal.refId = refId;
        return this;
    }

    hide(hide: boolean): this {
        this.internal.hide = hide;
        return this;
    }
}

The custom query type can now be used as usual to build a dashboard:

import { DashboardBuilder, RowBuilder } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/dashboard';
import { PanelBuilder as TimeSeriesBuilder } from "@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/timeseries";
import { CustomQueryBuilder } from "./customQuery";

const builder = new DashboardBuilder('Custom query type')
    .uid('test-custom-query-type')

    .refresh('1m')
    .time({ from: 'now-30m', to: 'now' })

    .withRow(new RowBuilder('Overview'))
    .withPanel(
        new TimeSeriesBuilder()
            .title('Sample panel')
            .withTarget(
                new CustomQueryBuilder("query here")
            )
    );

console.log(JSON.stringify(builder.build(), null, 2));

Defining a custom panel type

While the SDK ships with support for all core panels, it can be extended for private/third-party plugins.

To do so, define a type and a builder for the custom panel's options:

// customPanel.ts
import * as dashboard from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/dashboard';

export interface CustomPanelOptions {
    makeBeautiful?: boolean;
}

export const defaultCustomPanelOptions = (): CustomPanelOptions => ({
});

export class CustomPanelBuilder extends dashboard.PanelBuilder {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.internal.type = "custom-panel"; // panel plugin ID
    }

    makeBeautiful(): this {
        if (!this.internal.options) {
            this.internal.options = defaultCustomPanelOptions();
        }
        this.internal.options.makeBeautiful = true;
        return this;
    }
}

The custom panel type can now be used as usual to build a dashboard:

import { DashboardBuilder, RowBuilder } from '@grafana/grafana-foundation-sdk/dashboard';
import { CustomPanelBuilder } from "./customPanel";

const builder = new DashboardBuilder('Custom panel type')
    .uid('test-custom-panel-type')

    .refresh('1m')
    .time({ from: 'now-30m', to: 'now' })

    .withRow(new RowBuilder('Overview'))
    .withPanel(
        new CustomPanelBuilder()
            .title('Sample custom panel')
            .makeBeautiful()
    );

console.log(JSON.stringify(builder.build(), null, 2));

Maturity

[!WARNING] The code in this repository should be considered experimental. Documentation is only available alongside the code. It comes with no support, but we are keen to receive feedback and suggestions on how to improve it, though we cannot commit to resolution of any particular issue.

Grafana Labs defines experimental features as follows:

Projects and features in the Experimental stage are supported only by the Engineering teams; on-call support is not available. Documentation is either limited or not provided outside of code comments. No SLA is provided.

Experimental projects or features are primarily intended for open source engineers who want to participate in ensuring systems stability, and to gain consensus and approval for open source governance projects.

Projects and features in the Experimental phase are not meant to be used in production environments, and the risks are unknown/high.

License

Apache 2.0 License