Automate Grafana Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Grafana.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Grafana; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Grafana data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Grafana data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Grafana Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Grafana.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Grafana (see below).

Grafana API Profile Settings

In Grafana, navigate to Administration > Users and Access > Service accounts, create a service account, then click Add service account token to generate a token.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")
       

2. Connect to Grafana:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Grafana.apip;ProfileSettings='Token=your_service_account_token;Domain=your_grafana_domain';")
   $conn.Open()
   

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Id, Name from Alert"
   
   $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn)
   $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable
   $da.Fill($dt)
   
   $dt.Rows | foreach {
   	Write-Host $_.id $_.name
   }