I love the use of ‘inline variables,’” said one judge. “The dashboard is very well designed - it’s beautiful to look at - and uses many different types of visualizations and plugins to extend the capabilities of our panels. “Through this dashboard, people can gain valuable insights into how BI dashboards are created on the Grafana platform.” “What makes me proud is when I become a person who is useful to many people,” Asep said. He installed Grafana on a virtual private server, and he was inspired to show that Grafana can be used for more than just monitoring infrastructure, and that you can do it without lots of money. “I’m also proud that it shows that you can use Grafana for funny projects like Counter-Strike data.” Asep Supriyadi: BI dashboard for shipping analytics Click on the image to see Asep’s full dashboardĪsep Supriyadi built a personal BI dashboard for shipping analytics, with panels breaking down everything from order by country to total profit and loss. “I’m really proud that it’s gotten a lot of attention and people like it,” Andreas said. He’d seen similar sites that could track games, but he wanted to run it locally - and he wanted a challenge.
The data is sent from an OSS project called CS Demo Manager to a PostgreSQL database and then to Grafana. He tracks matches, metrics, and game stats, and he plans to use it in the future for tournaments. “I would recommend creating a similar dashboard to anyone who commutes to work daily.” Andreas Rahimic Andersen: tracks Counter-Strike video game stats Click on the image to see Andreas’ full dashboardĪndreas Rahimic Andersen uses his dashboard to track his usage of the popular video game series Counter-Strike. “Instead of manually looking up information, Ruben has created an amazing dashboard that compiles all of this information and provides a great overview and support in making commuting an easier and more data-driven decision,” one of our judges said. He also uses a Prometheus instrumentation library for Python to combine metrics and send them to Grafana Cloud via Grafana Agent.
He uses APIs and GTFS realtime feeds to pull in data from, the Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority, and drive time and traffic information from Google Maps and Bing Maps. Ruben Fernandez built his dashboard to improve his daily commute in Atlanta, which can be drastically impacted by inclement weather and heavy traffic. Personal dashboards Ruben Fernandez: monitors daily commute in Atlanta Go to the Golden Grot Awards webpage to cast your vote, and continue reading to get a recap of all the finalists’ great work. Voting closes on Friday, March 1, so you don’t have much time to weigh in.