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Published inJun 2020
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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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Geolocating data on the Worldmap panel

Up until now, we've been exclusively using graph panels that are available on Grafana out of the box. We're going to mix things up a little by bringing in a new plugin panel and visualizing a new dataset.

There are two mechanisms for installing a new plugin—the grafana-cli command-line tool and an environment variable setting in the Grafana configuration. Because we can easily do it in Docker Compose at the same time as we launch the service, we're going to opt for the second method. All that is required is to set the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable to the list of desired plugins in our docker-compose.yml file and restart Grafana.

In order to visualize the location of earthquakes around the world, we'll need to install a Worldmap plugin panel.

  1. Check the Grafana plugin directory at https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins to lead you to the Worldmap panel.
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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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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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