Business News for Grafana

Deprecation notice

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.

Introduction

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 11.6 or newer.
• 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

The Business News data source can be installed from the Grafana Plugins catalog or utilizing the Grafana command line tool.

For the latter, please use the following command.

grafana-cli plugins install volkovlabs-rss-datasource

Highlights

• Supports RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 and Atom.
• Works with Dynamic Text visualization panel.
• Returns Channel (Feed) data, Items (Entries) or both as separate data frames.
• Extract and parse as additional fields:
  • Image from Meta.
  • H4 and Image from the Encoded content.
  • Media:Group for YouTube.
• Filter items/entries based on the selected Time Range.
• Allows specifying Query parameters with dashboard variables.

Documentation

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

Business Suite for Grafana

The Business Suite is a collection of open source plugins created and actively maintained by Volkov Labs.

The collection aims to solve the most frequent business tasks by providing an intuitive interface with detailed written documentation, examples, and video tutorials.

Enterprise Support

With the Business Suite Enterprise, you're not just getting a product, you're getting a complete support system. You'll have a designated support team ready to tackle any issues.

You can contact us via Zendesk, receive priority in feature requests and bug fixes, meet with us for in-person consultation, and get access to the Business Intelligence. It's a package that's designed to make your life easier.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.