Connect to Grafana Data in DBArtisan
The CData ODBC Driver for Grafana seamlessly integrates Grafana data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Grafana data as a database. This article shows how to create an data source for Grafana in DBArtisan and execute queries. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.
Integrate Grafana Data into DBArtisan Projects
If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.
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.
You can then follow the steps below to register Grafana data as a database instance in your project:
- In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
- Select Generic ODBC.
- Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN.
- Finish the wizard to connect to Grafana data. Grafana entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.
You can now work with Grafana data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Grafana API.
