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title: "MetaQueries data source plugin for Grafana"
description: "MetaQueries data source plugin for Grafana by goshposh. Available in Grafana Cloud and self-managed Grafana. See install steps and the changelog."
---

> This is the Markdown version of https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/goshposh-metaqueries-datasource/

# MetaQueries

- Developer: goshposh
- Version: 0.0.9

## Meta Queries Plugin for Grafana:

Meta Queries plugin is built as a data source plugin and can be used in conjunction with other data source to show computed metrics like Moving Average, Time Shift.

## Installation

Need to clone this repo into your grafana plugins directory (default /var/lib/grafana/plugins if your installing grafana with package). Restart grafana-server and the plugin should be automatically detected and used.

```
git clone git@github.com:GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries.git
sudo service grafana-server restart
```

## Usage

1. Create a new datasource and select `MetaQueries` as the desired type. ![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries/master/img/DataSourceConfig.png?raw=true "DataSource")

2. And new panel and set the `MetaQueries` as the data source.

3. On the top right corner, Click on Add query. Select the desired data source and specify the query as desired (add a few more).

4. Add a `MetaQueries` query, and preform the wanted manipulation (examples listed below) The Reference to the queries should be made both by query and it's metrics names. For example, from query `A` we'd like to work against metric calls `Test`, the refferer should be A\['test'].

## Examples

#### Arithmetic

Lets you perform arithmetic operations on one or more existing queries. ![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries/master/img/arithmetic-ex1.png?raw=true "Arithmetic Example 1 - Metric * 2") ![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries/master/img/arithmetic-ex2.png?raw=true "Arithmetic Example 2 - Metric A + Metric B")

#### Moving Average

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries/master/img/moving_average-ex1.png?raw=true "Moving Average Example 1 - 7 period moving average of Metric A")

#### Time Shift

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoshPosh/grafana-meta-queries/master/img/time_shift-ex1.png?raw=true "Time Shift Example 1 - 1 period timeshift of Metric A")

## Compatibility

Grafana Meta Queries plugin 0.0.1 and above are supported for Grafana: 4.x.x

## Supports Nesting

- Moving average of moving average
- Moving average of time shift
- Time shift of Moving average
- Time shift of Time Shift

## Known issue

- Moving average on arithmetic is not supported
- TimeShift on arithmetic is not supported

## Status

Lot of features might still not be implemented. Your contributions are welcome.