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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Generating data series in the Query tab

Let’s take a closer look at the Query tab, also called the Query Editor. To open a panel editor, click on the panel title and select Edit from the pulldown menu. If it isn’t already selected, click on the Query tab to select it. The Query tab is where we assign a data source to the panel’s queries. We’ll take a closer look at the Query tab shortly.

With TestData set as the default data source, Grafana also sets up Random Walk to be the default query scenario, so we are now ready to go with both a data source and a scenario that produces the displayed dataset series.

Before we delve further into the Query tab, we should probably talk a bit about its purpose. Unlike some visualization tools that are designed to connect to a single data source, Grafana is data source-agnostic. The Grafana data source plugins are not only responsible for presenting the Grafana user with a simplified query interface but also for structuring...

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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