Grafana Live Channel guide

Channel is a string identifier. In Grafana channel consists of 3 parts delimited by :

• Scope
• Path

For example, the channel grafana/dashboard/xyz has the scope grafana, namespace dashboard, and path .

The maximum length of a channel is 160 symbols.

Scope determines the purpose of a channel in Grafana. For example, for data source plugin channels Grafana uses ds scope. For built-in features like dashboard edit notifications Grafana uses grafana scope.

The path, which is the final part of a channel, usually contains the identifier of some concrete resource such as the ID of a dashboard that a user is currently looking at. But a path can be anything.

Channels are lightweight and ephemeral - they are created automatically on user subscription and removed as soon as last user left a channel.

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