Debugging Grafana Backend Plugin

Grafana Plugin Development
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Hi,

I’m new to Grafana development and would like to learn how to develop backend plugins as described in
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/plugins/developing/backend-plugins-guide/. I started to have a deeper look into the simple json backend datasource plugin (https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-backend-datasource), and now I’m wondering how debug the GO coding with a debugger provided by VSCode or IntelliJ GoLand. As far as I understand, the plugin is registered with the Grafana server which starts the plugin backend code. Do I have to run the Grafana server in the IDE in order to debug backend plugin code or is there any other way to observe plugin execution inside a debugger?

Thanks and best regards!

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This tutorial hasn’t been published yet but in this PR, it describes how to set up debugging:

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Thanks, for the link. I’ll check and hope that I’ll be able to debug.

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Hello folks,

It would be nice to have this covered step by step. I’m also trying to get clues to get it work.

As I see it is planned to be documented soon https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26851

Right now backend.Logger.Debug looks a only one best option for me.

Regards,
V.