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Warning

This plugin is deprecated and will only receive critical security updates. Support will end on February 1, 2027. We recommend using the Infinity data source instead. To get started quickly with CSV data in Grafana, refer to How to visualize CSV data with Grafana.

You can install the CSV plugin using grafana-cli, or by downloading the plugin manually.

Install using grafana-cli

To install the latest version of the plugin, run the following command on the Grafana server:

In linux/macos, you will be installing using the following command

Bash 
grafana-cli plugins install marcusolsson-csv-datasource

whereas in windows machine, use the following command

Bash 
grafana-cli.exe plugins install marcusolsson-csv-datasource

Install manually

  1. Go to Releases on the GitHub project page

  2. Find the release you want to install

  3. Download the release by clicking the release asset called marcusolsson-csv-datasource-<version>.zip. You may need to uncollapse the Assets section to see it.

  4. Install the plugin into the Grafana plugins directory. In the linux/macos, use the following command

    Bash 
    grafana-cli --pluginUrl ./marcusolsson-csv-datasource-<version>.zip plugins install marcusolsson-csv-datasource

    whereas in windows, use the following command

    Bash 
    grafana-cli.exe --pluginUrl marcusolsson-csv-datasource-<version>.zip plugins install marcusolsson-csv-datasource

  5. Restart the Grafana server to load the plugin