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This plugin has been deprecated as it is no longer maintained. Consider use of this alternative Operato Windrose panel.
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WindRose

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Windrose Panel for Grafana

Render metrics into a windrose chart.

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Environments

For linux ubuntu 16.04, first get nvm installed. some instructions can be found here.

After nvm installation, activate one engine. Here version 8.x is picked for no particular reason.

nvm install v8
nvm use v8

Building

To complie, run:

npm install -g yarn
yarn install --pure-lockfile
grunt

Roadmap

  • This plugin is modified from plotly panel for grafana and currently has many inconsistent variable names to be refactored.

Authors and contributors

The Grafana Windrose Plugin was initiated as a part of the joint research project among RCAS, RCEC of Academia Sinica of Taiwan; NCHC, TORI of Natioanl Applied Research Laboratories of Taiwan and Taiwan Generations Corporation.  It was developed by Sea Bunny Corporation and released under MIT license.

The contacts of developers are

Chih-Yu Kuo Research Fellow, RCAS, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan cykuo06@gate.sinica.edu.tw

and

Chun-Yun Wang, Sea Bunny Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan. cloud@seabunny.tech

RCAS: Research Center for Applied Sciences, RCEC: Research Center for Environmental Changes, NCHC: National Center for High-performance Computing, TORI: Taiwan Ocean Research Institute.

The code based is modified from a fork of plotly panel for grafana.

Installing WindRose on Grafana Cloud:

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 Panel

Use the grafana-cli tool to install WindRose 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.

2. Add the Panel to a Dashboard

Installed panels are available immediately in the Dashboards section in your Grafana main menu, and can be added like any other core panel in Grafana.

To see a list of installed panels, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core panels and installed panels will appear.