# Introducing the Netdata Source Plugin for Grafana

DevFeed: [Introducing the Netdata Source Plugin for Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-the-netdata-source-plugin-for-grafana-44936.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/introducing-netdata-source-plugin-for-grafana/>)

Published: 2022-10-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Netdata](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-netdata.md>)

Topics: [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [collection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collection.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plugin.md>)

## AI overview

Netdata introduces an open-source Grafana data source plugin that provides real-time monitoring, more than 2,000 infrastructure metrics, metadata, and machine-learning anomaly metrics. The plugin connects to Netdata Cloud APIs and requires authenticated access.

## Source excerpt

The open-source community is about to benefit greatly from Netdata's new Grafana data source plugin, which makes use of a powerful data collection engine. This new plugin maximizes the troubleshooting capabilities of Netdata in Grafana, making them more widely available. Some of the key capabilities provided to you with this plugin include the following: Real-time monitoring with single-second granularity. Installation and out-of-the-box integrations available in seconds from one line of code. 2,000+ metrics from across your whole Infrastructure, with insightful metadata associated with them. Access to our fresh ML metrics (anomaly rates) - exposing our ML capabilities at the edge! Why did we decide to do it? We are huge fans of Open-Source culture. Open-source is deeply rooted in Netdata's DNA. Because of this, at Netdata, we don't really buy into the "single pane of glass" or "observability platform" buzzwords. The reality is that things are just more complicated than that in real life.