A presentation given by Syed Usman Ahmad, Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs, at our 2023 Platform Summit, October 17-18, 2023.

1. Monitor Discourse Via
API Using Grafana
18 Oct. 2023

2. Syed Usman Ahmad
Sr. Developer Advocate
What I do?
My previous roles?
What I do beside
work?
Presenter About me

3. Why are we here today?

4. Lots of users traffic on daily basis

5. Using Admin Reports
Some examples:
● New contributors
● Top traffic sources
● Newly created topics
● Newly created topics
● Topics with no response
● etc

6. How to monitor the
Community performance?

7. 2
3 Easy and powerful to get data
1 Enables SQL queries against Backend DB
Discourse Data Explorer Plugin
Supported by the Discourse API

8. ● SQL query to get the Top 20 posts
Example

9. ● JSON Result:
Example

10. This is how we monitor the Community

11. How to do it?

12. 2
3
Only need to connect to a Data source
1 Available in both OSS and Enterprise versions
Using Grafana
Support various Visualisation formats

13. 2
3 Supports many Grafana features
1 Free to use
Using Infinity plugin
Support various data formats

14. Configuring Datasource

15. 2 Step process

16. How is it going to work?

17. Sending Request

18. Receiving Response

19. This is what you can design !!

20. Using different Panel Visualisation

21. Troubleshooting

22. Troubleshooting

23. Troubleshooting

24. Want to get involved?
● GitHub repo
● Slack channel #grafana
● Community forum
1 To report bugs, feature-request:
2 Other useful resources:
#grafana
grafana/grafana
community.grafana.com

25. Contact me:
Thanks for
participating!
Syed Usman Ahmad
usman.ahmad@grafana.com