"How I Built a Kafka Plugin for Grafana" | 4M+ Downloads
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A GrafanaCON talk by data engineer Hamed detailing the creation of a Kafka data source plugin that enables real-time message streaming into Grafana dashboards. The plugin supports JSON, Avro, and ProtoBuf formats with schema registry integration, autocomplete topic search, and flexible offset options. Ideal for developers and data engineers wanting to visualize live Kafka data in Grafana, with roadmap items including historical queries and alerting.
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