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RSS and status feeds

Visualize RSS feeds, Atom feeds, and status pages as Grafana annotations or table data. This is useful for monitoring service status pages and correlating outages with your metrics.

Before you begin

• Identify the RSS or Atom feed URL you want to query
• Most status feeds are publicly accessible and don’t require authentication
• For private feeds, configure appropriate authentication in the data source settings

Configure the data source

1. In Grafana, navigate to Connections > Data sources.
2. Click Add new data source and select Infinity.
3. In Allowed hosts, add the feed domain (for example, https://status.aws.amazon.com).
4. Click Save & test.

Query examples

AWS status feed

Use the AWS status RSS feed to display service incidents.

Configuration:

Columns:

GitHub status feed

Configuration:

Google Cloud status (Atom feed)

Atom feeds have a different structure than RSS feeds.

Configuration:

Columns for Atom feeds:

Use UQL for advanced parsing

For more control over data transformation, use UQL:

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parse-xml
| scope "rss.channel.item"
| extend "published"=todatetime("pubDate")
| project "title", "published", "description", "link"

Display as annotations

Use RSS feeds to add context to your dashboards by displaying events as annotations.

1. In your dashboard, click Settings (gear icon).
2. Navigate to Annotations and click Add annotation query.
3. Select your Infinity data source.
4. Configure the query using the settings above.
5. Map the columns:
   • Time: Use the pubDate or updated column
   • Title: Use the title column
   • Text: Use the description or content column

RSS item structure reference

RSS format:

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<item>
  <title>Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] SMS Delivery Delays</title>
  <link>http://status.aws.amazon.com/</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:44:00 PST</pubDate>
  <guid>http://status.aws.amazon.com/#sns-us-east-1_1642200240</guid>
  <description>Description of the incident...</description>
</item>

Atom format:

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<entry>
  <title>Google Cloud Console outage</title>
  <updated>2024-01-15T10:30:00Z</updated>
  <link href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/..." />
  <content type="html">Description of the incident...</content>
</entry>

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