Plugins 〉Business News


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Business News

  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Change log
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Business News for Grafana

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Introduction

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

Business News data source for Grafana | News feed tutorial for Grafana Dashboard

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

The Business News data source can be installed from the Grafana 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

SectionDescription
Dynamic TextDemonstrates how to display feed using Dynamic Text panel.
ProvisioningDemonstrates how to automatically provision the data source.
Release NotesStay 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.

Business Suite for Grafana

Feedback

We're looking forward to hearing from you. You can use different ways to get in touch with us.

  • Ask a question, request a new feature, and file a bug with GitHub issues.
  • Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and leave your comments.
  • Sponsor our open-source plugins for Grafana with GitHub Sponsor.
  • Support our project by starring the repository.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.

Installing Business News on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Change Log

4.2.0 (2024-09-17)

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated E2E tests to use Docker (#80)
  • Updated to Grafana 11.2 and dependencies (#81)

4.1.0 (2024-06-07)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added tooltip to Feed URL (#73)
  • Added XML Server (#75)
  • Updated to Grafana 11.0 and dependencies (#72)
  • Update fields in items getting mixed up (#76)
  • Remove Alerting support in Plugin configuration (#77)

4.0.0 (2024-05-09)

Breaking changes

  • Requires Grafana 10.1 and Grafana 11

Features / Enhancements

  • Added plugin e2e tests and remove cypress (#68)
  • Prepared for Grafana 11 (#71)
  • Updated to Grafana 10.4.2 and dependencies (#72)

3.1.0 (2024-02-12)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added application type in Headers (#61)
  • Updated ESLint configuration and refactoring (#62)
  • Updated to Grafana 10.3.1 (#63)

3.0.1 (2023-08-02)

Bugfix

  • Removed root URL http://localhost:3000 added during migration to Plugin Tools

3.0.0 (2023-07-26)

Breaking changes

  • Requires Grafana 9 and Grafana 10

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated tests with testing-library/react (#50)
  • Migrated to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 (#51)
  • Updated to Node 18 and npm (#51)
  • Updated to Grafana 10.0.0 (#51)
  • Added E2E Cypress testing (#52)
  • Removed Grafana 8.5 support (#56)
  • Updated ESLint configuration (#56)

2.4.0 (2023-04-08)

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated to Grafana 9.4.7 (#44)
  • Updated CI and Release workflows (#45)
  • Updated Documentation, Provisioning (#46)
  • Added URL parameters with variables support (#47, #48)

2.3.0 (2022-11-16)

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated to Grafana 9.1.4 (#36)
  • Added Compatibility Check Workflow (#37)
  • Updated CI to Node 16 and Synchronize with Release workflow (#39)
  • Updated to Grafana 9.2.2 (#40)
  • Updated CI to upload signed artifacts (#41)

2.2.0 (2022-08-25)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added YouTube video in README (#32)
  • Updated based on 9.1.1 (#35)

2.1.0 (2022-06-23)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added YouTube fields parsing and refactoring (#31)

2.0.0 (2022-06-17)

Breaking changes

  • Requires Grafana 8.5+ and 9.0+

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated based on 9.0.0 (#30)

1.7.0 (2022-05-21)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added Feed URL with query parameters (#28)

1.6.2 (2022-05-13)

Breaking changes

  • Requires Grafana 8.3.0 or newer.

1.6.1 (2022-05-13)

Features / Enhancements

  • Clarify Breaking change introduced in 1.6.0 (#24)
  • Updated API tests and set parsing rss.channel.item as array always (#25)
  • Improved test coverage (#26)

1.6.0 (2022-05-12)

Breaking changes

  • Automatic parsing of author.name and media:thumbnail.url fields break templates who uses them. To fix it, just replace it with author and media:thumbnail. Thanks to @vfauth for testing.

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated based on 8.5.2 (#23)

Bug fixes

  • Can't parse GitHub releases feed (#21)

1.5.0 (2022-04-25)

Features / Enhancements

  • Added Provisioning instructions to README (#16)
  • Added RSS 1.0 support (#19)
  • Rebuild based on 8.5.0 (#17, #20)

1.4.0 (2022-02-18)

Features / Enhancements

  • Updated using 8.4.0 and use PluginCheck v2 (#13, #14)
  • Select items/entries based on the selected Time Range (#3)

1.3.1 (2022-02-02)

Bug fixes

  • Google Workspace Atom feed failed #11

1.3.0 (2022-01-24)

Features / Enhancements

  • Update README with link to the Grafana Marketplace (#8)
  • Rebuild using 8.3.4 (#6)

1.2.0 (2022-01-11)

Features / Enhancements

  • Signed as Community datasource plugin (#7).

1.1.0 (2021-12-27)

Features / Enhancements

  • Extract <img src="X"> from the <figure> (#5)
  • Extract Guid's text from the <guid> (#5)
  • Update dashboards layout

1.0.0 (2021-12-26)

Features / Enhancements

  • Supports RSS 2.0 and Atom.
  • Works great with Dynamic Text panel by Marcus Olsson (marcusolsson-dynamictext-panel).
  • Initial release based on the Volkov Labs Abc Data source template.