Factry Historian Datasource

The Factry Historian datasource plugin for Grafana allows you to seamlessly visualize time-series and event data collected and stored by Factry Historian. Connect your Historian instance and start building dashboards with your industrial data in minutes.

⚡ New to Factry Historian? If you don’t have Factry Historian running yet, no problem! You can quickly trial the software using a ready-to-run docker-compose setup. It spins up a local Historian instance with a 2-hour runtime limit, perfect for testing the Grafana datasource and exploring your data without installing anything permanently.

Development

A data source backend plugin consists of both frontend and backend components, frontend components reside in /src and backend components reside in /pkg.

Prerequisites

• Go 1.23.2 or later
  • Mage
• Node.js 20 LTS with pnpm 8
• Docker

After starting the application in either debug or normal mode, navigate to http://localhost:3001 to view the plugin in Grafana. The datasource, along with some dashboards, will be automatically provisioned.

Debug mode

To run the plugin in debug mode, with filewatchers and hot-reloading enabled:

make clean  # optional
make run_debug

Normal mode

To run the plugin in normal mode, without filewatchers and hot-reloading:

make clean  # optional
make build_all
make run_server