Work with the backend

Develop backend components for a Grafana plugin in Go. The following commands are frequently used during backend plugin development:

Update the Go SDK

To keep the Grafana plugin SDK for Go up to date:

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

Build plugin binaries

Build backend plugin binaries for Linux, Windows and Darwin:

Option	Description	Example
build:[arch]	Builds a binary for a specific architecture.	mage -v build:Linux

List available Mage targets

List all available Mage targets for additional commands:

mage -l