ClickHouse outlines its vision for improving the Grafana plugin, focusing on reducing SQL friction and delivering a more native Grafana experience. Key planned improvements include click-to-filter log exploration, structured OTel attribute display, automatic log volume histograms in SQL mode, guided dashboard variable editors, annotation presets for deployments and Kubernetes events, and filter preservation across datasources. A new search-first query mode would let users explore logs without writing SQL, using ClickHouse's hasToken() for full-text search. Out-of-the-box dashboards for OTel and Kubernetes observability are planned, along with a visual metrics builder. Longer-term explorations include bidirectional SQL parsing with AST support, per-user JWT-based query identity for access control, and AI-assisted query building. These are described as experimental prototypes rather than committed roadmap items.
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A truly native Grafana experience #Search first, SQL when you need it #Out of the box dashboards #Metrics exploration without raw SQL #Looking further ahead #We want to hear from you #Sort: