Grafana plugins

Statistical process control, native to Grafana.

Seven panels and a data source that install into the Grafana you already run. XmR and Xbar charts, capability indices, Pareto and box plots, and measurements read off a 3D model. 4 are open source. The other 4 need a commercial license.

UCL MEAN LCL

8

plugins in the suite

100k+

downloads

6,500+

active Grafana servers

4

open source, free forever

They work like the panels you already have

Each one is a normal Grafana plugin. Install it, point it at any data source in your stack, and it picks up your theming, your dashboard variables and your alert rules. Grafana is the only thing you run.

SPC Chart
Open source

Point it at raw measurements. It works out the mean and the control limits, then checks every new sample against them and flags the ones that fall outside.

  • XmR, Xbar-R and Xbar-S charts
  • Automatic LCL, UCL and mean
  • Cp, Cpk, Pp and Ppk in a stats table
  • Alerting, annotations and CSV export

Panel Apache-2.0 Grafana 11.6.10+

SPC Chart PRO
PRO

Everything in SPC Chart, plus Nelson run rules, attribute charts, time-weighted charts and staged limits, for processes that change part or setup mid-stream.

  • Nelson run rules 1-8 with violation markers
  • Attribute charts: p, np, c, u, Laney p' and u'
  • CUSUM, EWMA, I-MR-R/S, DNOM and Z-MR
  • Point exclusion and staged control limits

Panel Commercial Grafana 11.6.10+

SPC Histogram
Open source

The distribution behind the control chart. Bin your measurements, fit a normal curve over them, and read the capability indices against your spec limits in the same panel.

  • Gaussian curve fitted with Levenberg-Marquardt
  • Control limits drawn over the distribution
  • Compare series side by side or combined
  • Export buckets and control lines to CSV

Panel AGPL-3.0 Grafana 11.6.10+

SPC Box Plot
PRO

Location and spread in one view. Xf-Rf limits are built from medians and quartiles, so a single extreme reading does not move your control lines.

  • Median, quartiles, whiskers and outliers
  • Xf-Rf control limits resistant to extremes
  • Time series, categorical or pre-computed input
  • Capability indices from LSL and USL

Panel Commercial Grafana 11.6.10+

SPC Pareto
Open source

Ranks your defect codes by how much scrap each one accounts for. It counts and sorts the categories for you and draws the cumulative line on a second axis.

  • Sorts and counts categories automatically
  • Cumulative percentage on a second axis
  • Configurable vital-few threshold line
  • Top N grouping with an Other bucket

Panel AGPL-3.0 Grafana 11.6.12+

Ø12.4
SPC CAD
Open source

Read your measurements on the part they came from. Load a 3D model, attach characteristics to the features they belong to, and open a control chart from any balloon.

  • STL, 3MF, PLY and image files in the browser
  • Interactive balloons with charts and trends
  • Point clouds coloured by deviation
  • 13 built-in templates for metrology features

Panel AGPL-3.0 Grafana 11.0.0+

SPC Bullet
PRO

A progress bar, gauge or full bullet chart, small enough to tile across a shop-floor screen. The capability numbers sit on the bar itself.

  • Progress bar or bullet with qualitative zones
  • Target markers in six shapes
  • Mean, sigma, Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk overlays
  • Horizontal or vertical, multi-series layout

Panel Commercial Grafana 12.3.2+

SPC Characteristic
PRO

What the SPC CAD panel queries. The SPC maths runs as nested SQL inside your database, so a model carrying hundreds of characteristics opens without pulling every raw row across the network.

  • SPC computed in your database as nested SQL
  • Mean, UCL/LCL, Cp, Cpk, Cpm, Pp and Ppk straight from the database
  • Point-and-click characteristic picker, no SQL to write
  • PostgreSQL and MSSQL, with KensoBI and Q-DAS presets

Data source Commercial Grafana 11.6.10+

Where PRO goes further

SPC Chart is free and covers variables data: XmR, Xbar-R and Xbar-S, with capability indices. PRO adds attribute charts for count data, the Nelson rules that catch a drift or a shift while every point is still inside the limits, and the short-run methods for a machine that runs a different part every day.

Capability SPC Chart Apache-2.0 SPC Chart PRO Commercial
Variables charts: XmR, Xbar-R, Xbar-S
Automatic LCL, UCL and mean
Capability indices: Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk
Custom control lines and fill regions
Sigma zone lines, CSV export, alerting
Nelson run rules 1-8 with violation markers
Attribute charts: p, np, c, u, Laney p' and u'
Time-weighted charts: CUSUM and EWMA
I-MR-R/S for subgrouped batch data
Short-run charts: DNOM and Z-MR
Variable control limits by sample size
Point exclusion and staged control limits
Sigma estimation: Rbar, Sbar, pooled, moving range
Historical process parameters

Install from the Grafana catalog

The open source panels are published in the Grafana plugin catalog. Install them with the CLI, restart Grafana, and they show up in the visualization picker.

  • Works with any Grafana data source
  • Self-hosted, Docker or Grafana Cloud
  • Already installed and set up if you run KensoBI
# Open source panels, straight from the catalog
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spc-panel
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spchistogram-panel
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spcpareto-panel
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spccad-panel

# Commercial plugins. Same install, plus a license from
# Kenso Software. Get in touch and we will set it up.
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spcboxplot-panel
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spcbullet-panel
$ grafana-cli plugins install kensobi-spccharacteristic-datasource

Start with the free panels

Install the open source plugins into your own Grafana today.
KensoBI Cloud is on the way if you would prefer us to host it.