title: How to use Grafana to create graphs with data from Spring Boot
body: <p>I am new to Grafana and Spring Boot. I am trying to create a Spring Boot application, and use Grafana SimpleJSON Datasource plugin to get data from my Spring Boot APIs and create graphs. I'm following instructions here <a href="https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-simple-json-datasource/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-simple-json-datasource/</a>. Right now I am just hard-coding data into my Spring Boot App.</p>
  <p>My question is - Are there other better plugins or approaches people would suggest me to use? SimpleJSON seems to require a very specific format of JSON response, and I don't see too many detailed docs online. Is there any way that I can be more free on my JSON responses of my APIs, and set the parameters needed to plot graphs in Grafana?</p>
  <p>Thank you.</p>