Using Grafana with BigQuery data source

Question

I am trying to graph some bigquery time series data, is there an easy way to do it with something like grafana?

Answer 1

To visualize BigQuery data with Grafana, you can use the open source datasource plugin available from https://github.com/doitintl/bigquery-grafana

Here is how it looks:

You can either use Query Builder or plain BigQuery query to visualize your data. Both time series and table modes are supported along with annotations and sharded tables.

Answer 2

is there an easy way to do it with something like grafana

Data Studio has rich support for time-series - you should check Visualizing BigQuery data using Data Studio to start with it.

For more details - see Time series in Data Studio

Note: there is a mentioning there of You can show up to 5 metrics in your time series chart - I do believe they now support up to 10 metrics ! to produce something like below

Answer 3

Update 2022:

Now there is a BigQuery Plugin by Grafana Labs themselves: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-bigquery-datasource/

Worth mentioning it was forked from the initial Plugin by DoiT International. However, it was substantially improved by Grafana Labs.