How To Visualize BigQuery Data in Grafana

Ready to bring your BigQuery data into focus? In this Grafana Quickstart, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Google BigQuery to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin — available on all tiers, including Cloud Free.

Docs: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-bigquery-datasource/

We'll cover:
✅ Setting up the BigQuery data source in Grafana Cloud
✅ Uploading your Google Service Account key
✅ Exploring BigQuery datasets using the Visual and SQL Query editors
✅ Building a dashboard with live BigQuery data alongside your app & infra telemetry

Whether you're a data analyst, data scientist or GCP engineer, this guide makes it simple to bring business-level data into the same observability platform your dev teams are already using.

Chapters:

0:00 – Intro: Why BigQuery + Grafana just makes sense

0:35 – Installing and authenticating the BigQuery data source

2:15 – Setting up Google Cloud APIs and Service Account

3:50 – Uploading the key and connecting to BigQuery

4:25 – Exploring and visualizing BigQuery data in Grafana

7:10 – Building dashboards from BigQuery data

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