Enterprise Open source Grafana Cloud

Events

The first parameter of the Events category is On click:

  • Open Link: Opens an assigned link.
  • Show Details: Opens a drawer.

You configure links in the Data links category, which is common for all Grafana plugins. In the following image, the link is specified as follows:

  • __data is a reference to a retrieved data frame,
  • fields is a reference to the retrieved data frame fields,
  • url is a reference to a retrieved field name.
The On click parameter determines the plugin action when you click an event.

Drawer with event details

A drawer is a pop-up window that opens on the right-hand side of your browser and displays event details.

Event drawer example.

You can configure which data elements to show in the drawer by selecting them in the Details info parameter (see the first image on this page).

A drawer dissection.

Tooltip

Note

The tooltip feature is available starting from version 3.5.0.

You can enable the tooltip, which appears when you hover your mouse over an event.

The tooltip feature.

Multiple fields in the description

Note

Multiple fields in the description is available starting from version 3.5.0.

You can specify multiple fields to display in the event description.

Multiple fields in the description.

The Description format option

Note

The Description format option is available starting from version 3.5.0.

You can apply formatting for better visual display when your event descriptions contain comprehensive details.

Your options for description formatting are:

  • Inline: Use simple HTML formatting tags to have different font sizes, colors, and more.
  • Preformatted: Similar to the HTML tag <pre>. Text displays in a fixed-width font, with spaces and line breaks preserved. The text displays “as is”.

The following illustration shows how the same description text is interpreted depending on the selected Description format option.

The description formatting options.