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How to Generate Scheduled PDF Reports from Grafana OSS (and earn $2K-$5K helping clients do it)

DEV Community·Utkarsh Pandey·about 1 month ago
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Grafana OSS has no native reporting feature. To generate scheduled PDF reports from Grafana OSS, you either build a DIY pipeline with Puppeteer and the Grafana image renderer plugin or upgrade to Grafana Enterprise which is very costly and not up to the part, therefore most of teams prefer to deploy a dedicated reporting tool like Skedler on top of their existing GLP stack. This post walks through all three, why the DIY route almost always becomes a permanent side project, and how DevOps consultants are turning the fix into $2K-$5K per client. Disclosure: I work on Skedler, one of the tools mentioned below. I've kept the comparison honest because the DIY pain is real whether or not you ever pay for our product. Why this keeps coming up If you've ever set up Grafana OSS for a client and they came back two weeks later asking "Can you email me a PDF of this every Monday?", you know exactly what this post is about. Grafana OSS is great. Fast dashboards, flexible panels, huge ecosystem.…

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