Business News

Caution
As part of an effort to streamline and modernize, the Business News data source has been deprecated. To ensure uninterrupted access to news and data feeds, we strongly recommend migrating to the Infinity data source, a robust and versatile replacement designed to meet your monitoring and visualization needs.
The deprecation aligns with industry trends toward more integrated and scalable data solutions, addressing the complexities of managing fragmented data sources. The Infinity data source offers enhanced flexibility, supporting a wide range of data formats and real-time updates, making it an ideal choice for business analytics and dashboards.

The Business News data source is a plugin for Grafana that retrieves RSS and Atom feeds and allows visualizing them using Business Text and other panels.

Requirements

Business News data source 4.X requires Grafana 10.1 or Grafana 11.
RSS/Atom data source 3.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
RSS/Atom data source 2.X requires Grafana 8.5 or Grafana 9.
RSS/Atom data source 1.X requires Grafana 8.

Getting started

You can install the Business News data source from the Grafana Catalog or by using the Grafana command line tool.

To install using the command line, run the following command:

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-rss-datasource

Highlights

Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom.
Works with the Dynamic Text visualization panel.
Returns Channel (Feed) data, Items (Entries), or both as separate data frames.
Extracts and parses as additional fields:
- Image from Meta.
- H4 and Image from the Encoded content.
- Media:Group for YouTube.
Filters items/entries based on the selected time range.
Lets you specify query parameters with dashboard variables.

The following example shows a dashboard that combines five Business News data sources, each paired with Business Text panels. The Business Variable panel (#1) provides a switch between Volkov Labs, Grafana, and News channel.

The Business News data source allows to visualize RSS and Atom feeds on Grafana dashboard.

Tutorial

This detailed tutorial explains the RSS and Atom formats and shows you how to find appropriate links for further usage. The tutorial demonstrates how to install and configure the Business News data source on your Grafana dashboard. It also covers Grafana transformations to show data transformation techniques.

Documentation

Section	Description
Business Text	Demonstrates how to display feeds using the Business Text panel.
Provisioning	Demonstrates how to automatically provision the data source.
Release notes	Stay up to date with the latest features and updates.