Wavefront data source
The Wavefront data source lets you query and visualize metrics from VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly Wavefront) alongside any other data source in Grafana. Use it to track system health, correlate metrics with events, and build mixed data source dashboards.
Note
The Wavefront data source is an Enterprise plugin. It’s available with a Grafana Cloud Pro or Advanced plan and Grafana Enterprise. For installation instructions, refer to Plugin management.
Supported features
Requirements
Before using the Wavefront data source, make sure you have:
- A Grafana Cloud Pro or Advanced plan or an activated on-prem Grafana Enterprise license.
- Grafana v11.6.7 or later.
- A Wavefront tenant URL, for example
https://myenvironment.wavefront.com. - A Wavefront API token from a user account or a service account with permission to read metrics and events.
Get started
The following documents help you get started with the Wavefront data source:
- Configure the Wavefront data source
- Wavefront query editor
- Wavefront template variables
- Alerting with the Wavefront data source
- Wavefront annotations
- Troubleshoot the Wavefront data source
Additional features
After you configure the data source, you can:
- Use Explore to query Wavefront data without building a dashboard.
- Add transformations to reshape query results.
- Create Grafana-managed alert rules from any Wavefront query.
- Use Wavefront events as annotations on dashboard panels.
Pre-built dashboards
The plugin ships with pre-built dashboards you can import from the Wavefront data source’s Dashboards tab:
- Kubernetes Containers - Container-level CPU, memory, and throughput metrics.
- Kubernetes Nodes - Node capacity and utilization overview.
- Kubernetes Pods - Pod health, restarts, and resource usage.
- Kubernetes Summary - Cluster-wide summary of Kubernetes workloads.
- Wavefront Usage: Health - Tenant health and ingestion health signals.
- Wavefront Usage: Ingestion - Points-per-second ingestion and rate-limit telemetry.
To import a dashboard, go to Connections > Data sources, select your Wavefront data source, open the Dashboards tab, and click Import next to the dashboard you want.
Plugin updates
Always ensure that your plugin version is up-to-date so you have access to all current features and improvements. Navigate to Plugins and data > Plugins to check for updates. Grafana recommends upgrading to the latest Grafana version, and this applies to plugins as well.
Note
Plugins are automatically updated in Grafana Cloud.
