Plugins 〉Factry Historian Datasource
Factry Historian Datasource
Factry Historian Datasource
Grafana datasource for Factry Historian.
Introduction
Empower any employee to analyze process data in a user-friendly way. The Grafana data source on top of Factry Historian allows business users to trend time-series data and analyze events, such as batches or shifts – with zero technical skills required.
Features
- Query historical data using the asset tree defined in Factry Historian
- Query historical data using measurements from Factry Historian
- Query events from Factry Historian
- Annotate graphs with event data from Factry Historian
- Use assets, measurements and events from Factry Historian as variables to build dynamic dashboards
Installation
A full step-by-step guide can be found in the 'Installing Factry Historian Datasource' Tutorial.
Install using the grafana-cli or by cloning the repository directly into the Grafana plugins directory.
grafana-cli plugins install factry-historian-datasource
Configuration
Create a new instance of the data source from the Grafana Data Sources administration page. And configure the necessary settings.
- URL: The URL of the Factry Historian API.
- Token: The API token to authenticate with the Factry Historian API.
- Organization: The UUID of the organization to query data from.
- Default tab: The default tab to show when opening the query editor.
Documentation
Full documentation can be found at the Factry documentation site: https://docs.factry.cloud/docs/grafana-datasource
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Installing Factry Historian Datasource on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Data Source
Use the grafana-cli tool to install Factry Historian Datasource from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Configure the Data Source
Accessed from the Grafana main menu, newly installed data sources can be added immediately within the Data Sources section.
Next, click the Add data source button in the upper right. The data source will be available for selection in the Type select box.
To see a list of installed data sources, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core data sources and installed data sources will appear.
Changelog
vIDK
Released on IDK
- Enabled annotations for events
- Added dashboard variable query editors for: measurement, databases, assets, asset properties, event types and event type properties
- Improved support for dashboard variables
- Can use everywhere where it makes sense
- Multi-value supported
- Reworked measurement selection, using a regular expression is now a toggle
- Fetch tag keys/values from the historian
- Support periodic values in the event query
- Optionally query asset properties in the event query
- Improved error handling
