Why Every Grafana Plugin Developer Secretly Thinks They’re Painting the Mona Lisa of Dashboards
On the surface, Grafana might seem like a utilitarian tool—a dashboarding platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. But spend even a little time among its plugin developers, and you’ll start to notice something curious. These engineers, data scientists, and visualization enthusiasts aren’t just crafting widgets on a canvas. They’re aspiring artists, and in their eyes, every new bar chart configuration or real-time data panel borders on a masterpiece. So, why does every Grafana plugin developer secretly believe they’re painting the Mona Lisa of dashboards?