Requirements: Bring a laptop!
Date: Thursday 13th November 2025
Time: 17:30 GMT
Location: London, UK
Description
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.
A plugin that I’ll share with you all is the Infinity Data Source plugin, which lets you connect Grafana directly to your REST APIs. It supports formats like JSON, CSV, and even GraphQL. That means you can take almost any API and start visualising its data immediately without additional backend processing.
In this fun 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 laptops as this will be a hands-on workshop!
