Question on how to create a plug in to solve my problem

Grafana Plugin Development
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Hi all, new to grafana and seeking guidance on how to solve my problem.

  1. Context

My company is using Grafana for the telemetry visualization, but most of them can be queried directly and displayed accordingly, my data, on the other hand, is encoded/encrypted so it is not readable until it is decrypted/decoded, I am adding a AWS service to decode/decrypt it.

  1. My envisioned solution

I am thinking of developing an App plug for grafana which will:

  • Retrieve my encoded the data from the current data source like any other telemetry
  • Once my encoded data is returned, it will post a HTTP request to my decoding AWS service, which will ultimately return the decoded/decrypted data in JSON file
  • Then it will feed the data to the databoard of grafana
  1. Questions:
  • Does this solution make sense? Am I on the right track?
  • How to feed the JSON data to the dashboard? what to do with the data transformation?
  • Any detailed guidance on writing a plugin like this?

Thanks
Richard