Developer. Documentarian. Educator. on Marcus Olsson

A panel plugin for Grafana to visualize Gantt charts.

A Grafana panel plugin for hexagonal tiling of data.

Load CSV files into Grafana.

Grafana is open source visualization and analytics software.

In this episode, we talk to Marcus Olsson, Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, about Grafana’s open-source tool for observability and monitoring.

As you add more panels to your dashboard, more requests are being made, potentially leading to your dashboard taking longer to load.

Learn how to write beginner-friendly issues for your open-source project.

A data source plugin for loading JSON APIs into Grafana using JSONPath or JSONata.

Define text templates using the data from your data source query.

One thing we believe at Grafana Labs is that your data should be presented in a way that makes sense to you.

Complex systems fail in complex and unexpected ways.

Plugins amplify what you can do with Grafana.

In this webinar, Marcus will show you how to get started using Grafana.

Create static query results for prototyping dashboards and testing panels.

There are a lot of great things about Grafana 7.0, but one of my favorite features is the new React-based plugin platform, which has a set of new APIs and design system to help you build your own plugin.

Compare data by area and colors.

Since Petr Slavotinek created the Carpet plot plugin in 2017, it’s been one of the most popular community plugins for Grafana.

In this blog post — which is part of our Learn Grafana series that covers how to build effective and efficient dashboards — we’ll look at how you can dynamically add and remove entire panels through a feature called repeated panels.

Aggregate time series by hour to analyze activity or traffic during the day.

A simple JSON Schema to Markdown generator.

As the work-from-home culture continues to reshape many people’s lives, the team at Grafana Labs has been sharing tips, tricks, and hacks we have learned as a remote-first company.

You’re done setting up your first graph panels in Grafana.

How do you document a non-trivial open source project?

Great dashboards answer a limited set of related questions.

A minimal theme for VS Code.

Command-line utility application for displaying frequencies as histograms or bar charts, from the standard input.

Fear is the enemy of innovation and creative experimentation.

We will showcase how we harmonised and automatised some of the processes and routines at Bonnier Broadcasting with Apache Airflow and the Google Cloud Platform.

This meetup will introduce you to Go in the form of a code-along workshop.

This repository contains gopher artwork, based on the original artwork by Renee French.

Go client for Serialized IO.

More tips and tricks for building a Go client package.

A UI library for terminal applications.

My response to some of the questions I got after my talk in London.

Go has been widely successful for creating tools and infrastructure, but the simplicity of the language also makes for an excellent fit for implementing core business applications.

Together with Peter Hellberg, I organized more than 20 community events for the Go Stockholm Meetup Group.

Up until now, we have only looked at one service in isolation, but this is seldom the case in a service-oriented architecture.

Learn how to build an idiomatic Go client for your REST API.

In my previous post I announced a project I have been tinkering with lately; porting an existing DDD sample application to Go.

In 2008, Citerus developed a Java sample application in close collaboration with Eric Evans, based on the examples in his book.

I developed a sample application to explore Domain Driven Design in Go.

We live in an asynchronous event-based distributed system called nature.