Grafana status panel - clickable icon

Grafana Configuration
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I’m new to Grafana and trying to untangle what a previous admin did years ago on a RHEL8 server. (prometheus ver go1.16.12, grafana ver 9.2.10-25.el8
I’m working with a RHEL9 server, prometheus ver go1.25.3, grafana ver 10.2.6. I installed prometheus from a EPEL repo. Nodes are running golang-github-prometheus-node-exporter-1.3.1-4.el8.x86_64.
So here’s my question. The RHEL8 server used the vonage status panel plugin b/c we just want a simple display of our critical systems to show them as up/down (green/red). But we could also click on each system icon on the display and it would go to a page where it would show stats for that system.
I understand that vonage-status-panel is deprecated and on the new server I’m using the Grafana-status plugin. But I haven’t figured out how to make the icons clickable. Is it possible that that particular feature isn’t available with the new plugin? Or am I missing some JSON code to make that available?

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?

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  • What happened?

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I figured out that I am missing JSON code for the dashboard. But I have no idea how this link gets generated. So there is a small section of code I’m missing. I’m pasting one below from the old server:

“links”: [
{
“targetBlank”: true,
“title”: “”,
“url”: “https://'oldserver.ourdomain.com:3000/d/W5KDrdKnz/node-exporter-for-prometheus-dashboard-based-on-11074?orgID=1&from=now-1h&to=now&var-job=https_node_exporter&var-hostname='ournode.ourdomain&var-node=ournode.domain:9100$var-interval=30s$var-maxmount=%2F&var-show_hostname=ournode.domain$var-total=30”

Can anyone tell me how this URL gets generated? If I try this URL on the new server, it doesn’t work.

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Hi, the links section in the JSON of the dashboard comes from Data links setting - notice in the attached screen.

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If the plugin you’re using does not have such an option, you won’t be able to create the links from the panel. From what I see in the plugin page (if that’s the one you’re using), this panel could be somewhat recreated using Stat visualization in Grafana - and that for sure supports the data links.

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