Display error in Panel

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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    Grafana 9.x
  • What are you trying to achieve?
    I need to display a custom error message in the standard error section of a panel (top left corner). I want to set this custom error message from my backend plugin to the Panel in Grafana. The plugin is written in Golang. Please give me a code snippet if possible.
  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    Don’t know how to acheive it
  • What happened?
    NA
  • What did you expect to happen?
    Display error in the panel’s standard error section.
  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    NA
  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
    NA
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    NA
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To display an error, frontend part of the Data Source should throw exception based on the output from the backend with returned custom message.

There should be examples in repository GitHub - grafana/grafana-plugin-examples

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Thank you. Will explore the examples.

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