Using APM11/Graphana with Generic Graphana BooM Panel..

[Jim Loveday]

Open ended question here.

Our shop is invesigating the concept of APM11/Dashboard beautification.  As one of our inhouse APM admins, its rather frustrating when a salesdroid from another APM tool vendor shows our leadership a great number of easily built company branded dashboards with our corporate color themes etc etc.

Granted this is to some extent eyecandy, but better dashboard theming and color theming with APM11 would be of great utility in high eyestrain environments such as NOCs where large screens seem to dominate the operations theater.  The dashboard options  &theme=dark doesn't approach the flexibility and utility that is desired. Nor can it be made persistent across all APM11 dashboards.

Graphana has an opensource  dashboard panel plugin known as Boom Panel (github.com/yesoreyeram/yesoreyeram-boomtable-panel) which would go a long way  in assisting with vendor branding & color theming for visibility.  Not to mention making APM11 look 'better' than the competing tools to our higher ups.

Any browser plugin providing color/css color overrides are not a viable option due to corporate security.

My ask, what are other APM11 users are doing to accomplish this visibility gap.
Has anyone sucessfuly added Boom Panel or similar to thier dashboard layouts?

[Jim Loveday]

Sorry, clicked post too fast.... didn't spellcheck and pasted wrong URL Link.

Correction:

Not::  Boom Table Panel..

Instead:: Boom Theme Panel:  https://github.com/yesoreyeram/yesoreyeram-boomtheme-panel

Features:

• Theme switcher
• Multiple themes per dashboard
• Theme builder
• External stylesheets support
• Add inline styles to themes to override styles
• Add many themes as possible without rebuilding / restarting grafana
• Users can change the themes without editing the dashboard
• Dashboard specific themes

[Haruhiko Davis]

APM 11 has been replaced by DX APM for both on-premise and SaaS.

Grafana is available on both platforms branded as DX Dashboards. We have our own datasource connectors due to the way the data is stored in the new platform so you can't use an external implementation of Grafana.
Here is the link to our documentation and to our YouTube channel if you're interested.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-dashboards/SaaS.html

[Jim Loveday]

Re-asking the question:  

   Is it possible to use grafana plugins with the "DX Dashboards" which is an implementation of grafana?
Theme panel appears to be javascript that overrides cascading style sheets with user input parameters.
The question is being asked because my shop is looking for ways to apply custom branding & color themes
to DX Dashboards that we are building for a major DX APM rollout.

If boom theme cannot be used, input on other workarounds would be appreciated.

[Haruhiko Davis]

No you cannot use 3rd party plugins/connectors.
No you cannot currently override the themes.

If you are an active customer, you can make an enhance request through our support portal.