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Plugin usage unclear according to docs

See original GitHub issue

What would you like to be added:

Clear explanation what purpose this plugin fulfills and where it differs from the integrated Share -> Direct link rendered image functionality.

Why is this needed:

Docs state that:

Grafana supports automatic rendering of panels and dashboards as PNG images.

It seems that this functionality already exists as View -> Share -> Direct link rendered image.

Additionally, docs also points (or redirects) to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/image_rendering/%7B%7B%20%3C%20relref%20%22/installation/docker/#build-with-grafana-image-renderer-plugin-pre-installed"%20>%20}} which doesn’t exist.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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marefrcommented, Mar 20, 2020

@andig the reason is PhantomJS (which is pre-packaged with Grafana currently) is a dead project and not really a proper browser and is not something we want to continue build upon moving forward. Plugin/remote rendering service uses headless chrome.

That’s why we deprecated PhantomJS in Grafana v6.4, see release notes and changelog

For Grafana v7.0 we plan to remove PhantomJS (https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13802)

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marefrcommented, Mar 30, 2020

I just migrated it here