Google BigQuery data source for Grafana
The Google BigQuery data source plugin allows you to query and visualize Google BigQuery data from within Grafana.
Documentation
For complete documentation, refer to Google BigQuery data source documentation.
- Configure the data source — Authentication, provisioning, and Terraform setup
- Query editor — SQL and visual query editors, macros, partitioned tables
- Template variables — Dynamic dashboards with BigQuery queries
- Annotations — Overlay events on your graphs
- Alerting — Create alert rules using BigQuery data
- Troubleshooting — Solve common issues
Installation
- Navigate to the BigQuery plugin page on Grafana.
- Click Install plugin.
For detailed installation and configuration instructions, refer to Configure the data source.
Requirements
The following Google APIs must be enabled in your GCP project:
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Insights
- Adoption
Running on 12,434 active Grafana instances.
- Activity
Last updated 16 Oct 2026.
15 releases in the past year.
- Queries
201,932,764 total queries served across all Grafana Cloud instances.
- Version
- 3.4.3
- Dependencies
- Grafana >=11.6.11-0 <12 || >=12.0.10-0 <12.1 || >=12.1.7-0 <12.2 || >=12.2.5-0
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Grafana Cloud
Connect any plugin in Grafana Cloud.
- 150+ data source integrations
- Grafana Assistant - AI that correlates your data, builds queries, and answers questions
- 10k Prometheus metrics + 50 GB logs, traces, and profiles on the free tier
- ...and more