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Prasanth Ravi
Prasanth Ravi

Reputation: 155

Grafana query when dashboard is not visible

I'm wondering how Grafana fires it's queries (to the datasource).
Does it only fire queries when the dashboard/panel is visible or does it keep on firing queries based on the default time period of all dashboards ?

My assumption was that since Grafana itself doesn't store data, the queries would be on a need basis, but I've been seeing http requests occur periodically from my VM.

This is relevant for metrics such as CloudWatch etc, where each API call can be charged.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 360

Answers (1)

Jan Garaj
Jan Garaj

Reputation: 28656

Yes, you are correct. Grafana dashboards/panels fire queries only when they are visible (loaded in the browser).

But you may have alert rules in the Grafana and they should be evaluated also periodically. So I guess alerts are source of your queries.

Upvotes: 1

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