Business Text

The Business Text panel is a Grafana visualization plugin that converts plain text and table data into visually appealing, easy-to-read information cards. The plugin offers the following features:

Access to variables (dashboard and global)
Markdown
Handlebars
Helpers (predefined and custom)
CSS styles
JavaScript

When working with the Business Text plugin, you construct a text visualization template by:

Using the features listed above.
Indicating where to place fetched data frame elements.

Requirements

Business Text panel 6.X requires Grafana 11 or Grafana 12.
Business Text panel 5.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
Dynamic Text panel 4.X requires Grafana 9.2 or Grafana 10.
Dynamic Text panel 2.X and 3.X require Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
Dynamic Text panel 1.X requires Grafana 7.

Getting started

You can install the Business Text panel from the Grafana Plugins catalog or using the Grafana command line tool.

Alternatively, use the Grafana command-line tool with the following command:

grafana cli plugins install marcusolsson-dynamictext-panel

Highlights

Provides an in-panel code editor with automatic JavaScript code formatting. Use it to add your JavaScript code and to import external JavaScript libraries.
Supports Markdown and Handlebars.
Renders markdown-it into HTML elements.
- Supports code syntax highlighting using A11Y styles.
Provides code sanitization:
- Sanitizes HTML inside templates using XSS.
- You can disable this in the Grafana configuration through the disable_sanitize_html parameter.
Supports display of nested objects using the {{json object}} Handlebars helper.
Supports display of time global variables (__to and __from) as seconds, ISO timestamps, or formatted using the dayjs library.
Supports adding Handlebars helpers and event handlers.
Supports adding CSS styles with dashboard variables.
Supports internationalization using custom helpers.

Tutorial

The following video reviews the major latest release, including the data flow, predefined helpers, and numerous examples of external JavaScript libraries.

For more information, see tutorials related to this plugin.

Documentation

Section	Description
Rendering	Explains how to create a visualization template for your data.
Features	Explains the plugin’s features.
Use cases	Demonstrates interesting Community use cases.
Tutorials	Provides easy-to-follow tutorials.
Release notes	Stay up to date with the latest features and updates.