How to visualize workflows and business processes in Grafana: Introducing the Graphviz panel

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Here's a scenario that will likely sound familiar:You’re building an executive overview dashboard that you would put on a wall-mounted screen so the whole room can see how the business is doing at a glance. It’s for a Shopify online store, and displays a mix of business and application signals, including latency panels, error-rate panels, and a big stat panel for revenue-per-week. It looked great. But something is missing.That’s because the majority of the audience don't think in panels; they think in flows. "Where does the payment actually get stuck?" "Which service is upstream of the checkout?" "How are customers and prospects of the last two weeks segmented?" Those are questions about the layout of the signals, not about any one metric. To address this gap, we introduced the Graphviz panel (currently in private preview in all editions of Grafana), which helps you visualize process flows and networks directly in Grafana. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at why we built Graphviz, how it works, and some common use cases to help you get started. The panel is built on the open source Graphviz project, and it renders standard DOT, the same graph-description language Graphviz has