APIs Made Useful: Transforming Your API Data into Impactful Grafana Dashboards

Never tried Grafana before? This workshop is for you!

APIs are the backbone of modern software development. They power everything from mobile apps to internal tools, but let’s be honest, reading through raw JSON or API responses isn’t the most exciting way to work with data.
What if you could turn that data into clean, interactive graphs without writing a ton of custom code or spinning up a backend server? That’s where Grafana comes in!

Grafana is an open-source data visualisation and observability platform that lets you create interactive, real-time dashboards from various data sources. It’s best known for visualising metrics from systems like Prometheus or InfluxDB, but thanks to its plugin ecosystem, it can do much more.

In this fun, beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll:

• Explore what Grafana is all about
• Connect to an API using the Grafana Infinity plugin
• Configure a simple query and pull the data into Grafana
• Turn that data into a beautiful dashboard with different panel types

No prior knowledge of Grafana is required as this session is beginner-friendly, but bring your (well charged) laptops as this will be a hands-on session!