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Grafana Image Renderer

Render Grafana panels and dashboards as images and PDFs

Dashboards & Startpages ★ 540 stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

Grafana Image Renderer is a backend plugin and remote service that renders Grafana panels and dashboards into PNG images for alerts, reports, and sharing. It runs headless Chromium to produce server-side renders without a browser session.

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Key features

  • Server-side panel rendering
  • PNG output for alerts
  • Runs as remote render service
  • Official Grafana project

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Enables image alerts and reports
  • Simple Docker deployment

Trade-offs

  • Only useful alongside Grafana
  • Chromium memory overhead

Is Grafana Image Renderer secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Grafana Image Renderer's latest release (v5.12.7). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-11539, published 2025-10-09 (370 days ago), fixed in 4.0.16

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Grafana Image Renderer replaces

Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise Reporting alternatives

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