Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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💡 Join *Syed Usman Ahmad* , Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, where he demonstrates how to visualize and query MySQL data in a Grafana dashboard by using the *MySQL data source plugin* and be able to customize data from visualization panels for a more personalized experience.

Key Features of the MySQL Data Source Plugin:
- It is a built-in plugin on all Grafana platforms (no installation needed)
- Supports annotations, alerting, and transformation.
- Includes a built-in query editor, available in two modes: query mode (easy) and code mode (custom).


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00:00 - Intro
00:15 - MySQL data source plugin overview
01:09 - Setting up MySQL server user permissions
02:34 - Installing and Configuring data source plugin
04:48 - Verifying query inside Explore
05:17 - Creating dashboard
06:16 - Using Grafana Play Demo Dashboards
07:17 - Link to resources
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Links/resources:

Official documentation:
grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/mysql

Using with Grafana Cloud:
grafana.com/docs/learning-journeys/mysql-data-source

Grafana Play Demo Dashboard:
play.grafana.org/d/edyh1ib7db6rkb/mysql-overview

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