This is documentation for the next version of Grafana. For the latest stable release, go to the latest version.
Build a plugin
For more information on the types of plugins you can build, refer to the Plugin Overview.
Get started
The easiest way to start developing Grafana plugins is to use the Grafana create-plugin tool.
Open the terminal, and run the following command in your plugin directory:
npx @grafana/create-plugin@latest
Follow the questions and you will have a starter plugin ready to develop.
If you want a more guided introduction to plugin development, check out our tutorials:
Go further
Learn more about specific areas of plugin development.
Tutorials
If you’re looking to build your first plugin, check out these introductory tutorials:
Ready to learn more? Check out our other tutorials:
Guides
Improve an existing plugin with one of our guides:
- Add authentication for data source plugins
- Add support for annotations
- Add support for Explore queries
- Add support for variables
- Add a query editor help component
- Build a logs data source plugin
- Build a streaming data source plugin
- Error handling
- Working with data frames
- Development with local Grafana
Concepts
Deepen your knowledge through a series of high-level overviews of plugin concepts:
UI library
Explore the many UI components in our Grafana UI library.
Examples
For inspiration, check out our plugin examples.
