Advantages of the Infinity data source
The Infinity data source is a great option if you prefer not to send data to Grafana Cloud. This might be the case if you’re unable to install Grafana Alloy or use the OpenTelemetry collector. The Infinity data source offers flexibility, allowing you to query and visualize data from JSON API endpoints and CSV, XML, or GraphQL files.
The Infinity data source supports the following key features:
- Bring data from multiple sources into Grafana
- Flexible data manipulation with UQL, JSONata, GROQ
- Various data formats such as JSON, CSV
- Various authentication methods
- Basic authentication
- Bearer token authentication
- API key authentication
- OAuth passthrough
- OAuth2 client credentials
- OAuth2 JWT authentication
- AWS/Azure/GCP authentication
- Digest authentication
- Alerting, recorded queries, shared dashboards, query caching
- Utility variable functions
- Grafana node graph panel, annotations, and so on