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Visualizing time series data from Couchbase with Grafana

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Grafana is a quite popular tool for querying and visualizing time series data and metrics. If you follow my blog then you might have seen my earlier post about how to use Couchbase Server for managing time series data: http://nosqlgeek.blogspot.de/2016/08/time-series-data-management-with.html This blog is now about extending this idea by providing a Grafana Couchbase plug-in for visualizing purposes. After you installed Grafana (I installed it on Ubuntu, but there are installation guides available here for several platforms), you are asked to configure a data source. Before we will use Grafana's 'SimpleJson' data source, it's relevant how the backend of such a data source looks like. '/' : Returns any successful response in order to test if the data source is available '/search ': Returns the available metrics. We will just return 'dax' in our example. '/annotations' : Returns an array of annotations. Such an annotation h