Grafana Databend Data Source Plugin

The Databend data source plugin for Grafana allows you to visualize data from Databend in Grafana.

Supports both Databend (self-hosted) and Databend Cloud.

Features

• SQL Editor — Full SQL query editor with Monaco, macro support, and template variables
• Query Builder — Visual query builder with database/table/column selectors, filters, aggregation, and ordering
• Metrics — Time series visualization with $__timeInterval macro
• Logs — Native logs support with configurable time/level/message columns
• Traces — Native traces support with configurable span/trace ID columns
• Alerting — Grafana alerting support
• Annotations — Query-based annotations

Installation

From GitHub Releases

1. Download the latest release archive from the Releases page
2. Extract the archive into your Grafana plugins directory:

# Default plugins directory
unzip databendlabs-databend-datasource-<version>.zip -d /var/lib/grafana/plugins/

3. Since this plugin is not yet signed, you need to allow Grafana to load it. Add the following to your grafana.ini (or set via environment variable):

[plugins]
allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = databendlabs-databend-datasource

Or with environment variable:

GF_PLUGINS_ALLOW_LOADING_UNSIGNED_PLUGINS=databendlabs-databend-datasource

4. Restart Grafana

Docker

When running Grafana in Docker, mount the plugin and set the environment variable:

services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:latest
    environment:
      - GF_PLUGINS_ALLOW_LOADING_UNSIGNED_PLUGINS=databendlabs-databend-datasource
    volumes:
      - ./databendlabs-databend-datasource:/var/lib/grafana/plugins/databendlabs-databend-datasource

Configuration

Connect using a DSN (Data Source Name):

databend://user:password@host:8000/database?sslmode=disable

Logs Schema

Configure default table and column mappings for log queries:

Setting	Description	Default
Default Table	Table containing logs	otel_logs
Time Column	Timestamp column	timestamp
Level Column	Log level column	level
Message Column	Log message column	message

Traces Schema

Configure default table and column mappings for trace queries:

Setting	Description	Default
Default Table	Table containing traces	otel_traces
Trace ID Column	Trace ID column	trace_id
Span ID Column	Span ID column	span_id
Operation Name	Operation name column	operation_name
Service Name	Service name column	service_name
Duration Column	Duration column	duration
Start Time Column	Start time column	timestamp

Macros

Macro	Description	Example Output
$__timeFilter(col)	Time range filter	col >= '2024-01-01 00:00:00' AND col <= '2024-01-02 00:00:00'
$__timeFilter_ms(col)	Time range filter (ms precision)	Same with milliseconds
$__dateFilter(col)	Date-only filter	col >= '2024-01-01' AND col <= '2024-01-02'
$__fromTime	Start of time range	'2024-01-01 00:00:00'
$__toTime	End of time range	'2024-01-02 00:00:00'
$__timeInterval(col)	Time-bucketed column	DATE_TRUNC('minute', col)
$__timeInterval_ms(col)	Time-bucketed column (ms)	TO_TIMESTAMP(...)
$__interval_s	Dashboard interval in seconds	60

Building

Prerequisites

• Go 1.25+
• Node.js 24+
• pnpm 10+
• Mage

Frontend

pnpm install
pnpm build

Backend

mage -v

Development

make preview

This starts Databend and Grafana via Docker Compose with the plugin pre-configured.

License

Apache License 2.0