As part of my onboarding with Forward Networks, I’ve been exploring its native dashboarding capabilities. While the built-in dashboards offer useful insights, I’m not fully convinced they’ll meet the specific reporting needs of our leadership team.To address this, I’m evaluating two integration options:SharePoint: Using the Forward API to retrieve and transform data, then render dashboards tailored to our requirements directly within SharePoint. Grafana Cloud: If SharePoint proves limiting, I’ll explore leveraging our existing Grafana Cloud instance for more flexible visualization.Has anyone integrated Forward with either platform? I’d really appreciate any experiences, suggestions, or recommendations.Below is the format I think supports the SLT teams requirements.Thanks for any feedback.

Integrating Forward Networks with SharePoint and/or Grafana in the cloud.

As part of my onboarding with Forward Networks, I’ve been exploring its native dashboarding capabilities. While the built-in dashboards offer useful insights, I’m not fully convinced they’ll meet the specific reporting needs of our leadership team.

To address this, I’m evaluating two integration options:

SharePoint: Using the Forward API to retrieve and transform data, then render dashboards tailored to our requirements directly within SharePoint.
Grafana Cloud: If SharePoint proves limiting, I’ll explore leveraging our existing Grafana Cloud instance for more flexible visualization.

Has anyone integrated Forward with either platform? I’d really appreciate any experiences, suggestions, or recommendations.

Below is the format I think supports the SLT teams requirements.

Thanks for any feedback.

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Hi Steve,

Hopefully someone in the Community has some info for you!! I do have a few updates that I can share with you next time we meet. Talk to you then!

Kelly

Hi @SteveBamford -

We’ve been in touch via DM of course, but I wanted to post this here to close the loop as it were. Here’s something I did with Grafana community in the end. I tried Grafana cloud because it seemed to offer the ability to query our API directly without needing a time-series database. So I barked up that tree for a while, before finally realising I needed Prometheus to store the data and a Python script to do the translation from API to Prometheus telemetry.

Here’s a link to my article - happy to collaborate in any way if you want to!

Cheers and have a good weekend,

Andy

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