{
  "$id": "https://grafana.com/plugin-metadata",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "title": "plugin.json",
  "description": "The plugin.json file is required for all plugins. When Grafana starts, it scans the plugin folders and mounts every folder that contains a plugin.json file unless the folder contains a subfolder named dist. In that case, Grafana mounts the dist folder instead.",
  "required": ["type", "name", "id", "info", "dependencies"],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "$schema": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Schema definition for the plugin.json file"
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unique name of the plugin. If the plugin is published on grafana.com, then the plugin id has to follow the naming conventions.",
      "pattern": "^[0-9a-z]+\\-([0-9a-z]+\\-)?(app|panel|datasource)$"
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Plugin type.",
      "enum": ["app", "datasource", "panel"]
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Human-readable name of the plugin that is shown to the user in the UI."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Plugin category used on the Add data source page.",
      "enum": ["tsdb", "logging", "cloud", "tracing", "sql", "enterprise", "other"]
    },
    "annotations": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports annotation queries."
    },
    "alerting": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports alerting."
    },
    "backend": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "If the plugin has a backend component."
    },
    "executable": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The first part of the file name of the backend component executable. There can be multiple executables built for different operating system and architecture. Grafana will check for executables named `<executable>_<$GOOS>_<lower case $GOARCH><.exe for Windows>`, e.g. `plugin_linux_amd64`. Combination of $GOOS and $GOARCH can be found here: https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment."
    },
    "preload": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Initialize plugin on startup. By default, the plugin initializes on first use."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Marks a plugin as a pre-release.",
      "enum": ["alpha", "beta"]
    },
    "includes": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Resources to include in plugin.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalItems": false,
        "properties": {
          "type": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": ["dashboard", "page", "panel", "datasource"]
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "component": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "(Legacy) The Angular component to use for a page."
          },
          "role": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": ["Admin", "Editor", "Viewer"]
          },
          "path": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Used for app plugins."
          },
          "addToNav": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Add the include to the side menu."
          },
          "defaultNav": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Page or dashboard when user clicks the icon in the side menu."
          },
          "icon": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Icon to use in the side menu. For information on available icon, refer to [Icons Overview](https://developers.grafana.com/ui/latest/index.html?path=/story/docs-overview-icon--icons-overview)."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "logs": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports logs."
    },
    "skipDataQuery": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For panel plugins. Hides the query editor."
    },
    "metrics": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports metric queries. Used in the Explore feature."
    },
    "streaming": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports streaming."
    },
    "tables": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "tracing": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "For data source plugins. If the plugin supports tracing."
    },
    "hiddenQueries": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "dependencies": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Dependencies needed by the plugin.",
      "required": ["grafanaDependency"],
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "grafanaVersion": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "(Deprecated) Required Grafana version for this plugin, e.g. `6.x.x 7.x.x` to denote plugin requires Grafana v6.x.x or v7.x.x.",
          "pattern": "^([0-9]+)(\\.[0-9x]+)?(\\.[0-9x])?$"
        },
        "grafanaDependency": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Required Grafana version for this plugin. Validated using https://github.com/npm/node-semver.",
          "pattern": "^(<=|>=|<|>|=|~|\\^)?([0-9]+)(\\.[0-9x\\*]+)(\\.[0-9x\\*])?(\\s(<=|>=|<|=>)?([0-9]+)(\\.[0-9x]+)(\\.[0-9x]))?$"
        },
        "plugins": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "An array of required plugins on which this plugin depends.",
          "additionalItems": false,
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Plugin dependency. Used to display information about plugin dependencies in the Grafana UI.",
            "required": ["id", "name", "type", "version"],
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string",
                "pattern": "^[0-9a-z]+\\-([0-9a-z]+\\-)?(app|panel|datasource)$"
              },
              "type": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": ["app", "datasource", "panel"]
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "version": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "info": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Metadata for the plugin. Some fields are used on the plugins page in Grafana and others on grafana.com if the plugin is published.",
      "required": ["logos", "version", "updated", "keywords"],
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "author": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Information about the plugin author.",
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Author's name."
            },
            "email": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Author's name.",
              "format": "email"
            },
            "url": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Link to author's website.",
              "format": "uri"
            }
          }
        },
        "build": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Build information",
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "properties": {
            "time": {
              "type": "number",
              "description": "Time when the plugin was built, as a Unix timestamp."
            },
            "repo": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": ""
            },
            "branch": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Git branch the plugin was built from."
            },
            "hash": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Git hash of the commit the plugin was built from"
            },
            "number": {
              "type": "number",
              "description": ""
            },
            "pr": {
              "type": "number",
              "description": "GitHub pull request the plugin was built from"
            }
          }
        },
        "description": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Description of plugin. Used on the plugins page in Grafana and for search on grafana.com."
        },
        "keywords": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Array of plugin keywords. Used for search on grafana.com.",
          "minItems": 1,
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "links": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "An array of link objects to be displayed on this plugin's project page in the form `{name: 'foo', url: 'http://example.com'}`",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "url": {
                "type": "string",
                "format": "uri"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "logos": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "SVG images that are used as plugin icons.",
          "required": ["small", "large"],
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "properties": {
            "small": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Link to the \"small\" version of the plugin logo, which must be an SVG image. \"Large\" and \"small\" logos can be the same image."
            },
            "large": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Link to the \"large\" version of the plugin logo, which must be an SVG image. \"Large\" and \"small\" logos can be the same image."
            }
          }
        },
        "screenshots": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "An array of screenshot objects in the form `{name: 'bar', path: 'img/screenshot.png'}`",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "updated": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Date when this plugin was built.",
          "pattern": "^(\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}|\\%TODAY\\%)$"
        },
        "version": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Project version of this commit, e.g. `6.7.x`.",
          "pattern": "^([0-9x]+\\.[0-9x]+\\.*[0-9x]*$|\\%VERSION\\%)"
        }
      }
    },
    "queryOptions": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "For data source plugins. There is a query options section in the plugin's query editor and these options can be turned on if needed.",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "maxDataPoints": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "For data source plugins. If the `max data points` option should be shown in the query options section in the query editor."
        },
        "minInterval": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "For data source plugins. If the `min interval` option should be shown in the query options section in the query editor."
        },
        "cacheTimeout": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "For data source plugins. If the `cache timeout` option should be shown in the query options section in the query editor."
        }
      }
    },
    "routes": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "For data source plugins. Proxy routes used for plugin authentication and adding headers to HTTP requests made by the plugin. For more information, refer to [Authentication for data source plugins](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/authentication/).",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "For data source plugins. Proxy routes used for plugin authentication and adding headers to HTTP requests made by the plugin. For more information, refer to [Authentication for data source plugins](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/authentication/).",
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "properties": {
          "path": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "For data source plugins. The route path that is replaced by the route URL field when proxying the call."
          },
          "method": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "For data source plugins. Route method matches the HTTP verb like GET or POST."
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "For data source plugins. Route URL is where the request is proxied to."
          },
          "reqSignedIn": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "reqRole": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "headers": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "For data source plugins. Route headers adds HTTP headers to the proxied request."
          },
          "tokenAuth": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "For data source plugins. Token authentication section used with an OAuth API.",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
              "url": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "For data source plugins. URL to fetch the authentication token.",
                "format": "uri"
              },
              "params": {
                "type": "object",
                "description": "For data source plugins. Parameters for the token authentication request.",
                "additionalProperties": false,
                "properties": {
                  "grant_type": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth grant type."
                  },
                  "client_id": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth client id."
                  },
                  "client_secret": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth client secret. Usually populated by decrypting the secret from the SecureJson blob."
                  },
                  "resource": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth resource."
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "jwtTokenAuth": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "For data source plugins. Token authentication section used with an JWT OAuth API.",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
              "url": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "For data source plugins. URL to fetch the JWT token.",
                "format": "uri"
              },
              "params": {
                "type": "object",
                "description": "For data source plugins. Parameters for the token authentication request.",
                "additionalProperties": false,
                "properties": {
                  "grant_type": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth grant type."
                  },
                  "client_id": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth client id."
                  },
                  "client_secret": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth client secret. Usually populated by decrypting the secret from the SecureJson blob."
                  },
                  "resource": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "For data source plugins. OAuth resource."
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}