VictoriaLogs looks like an interesting alternative to Grafana Loki. But it would be nice to still query it via the Grafana Dashboard along with all the rest. It takes a couple of specific steps to install the appropriate plugin, especially on NixOS.
The README for the plugin does document a couple of alternative ways to install the plugin, but none for NixOS. A proper way would be to create a declarative plugin that works well together with nixpkgs. But here’s how to have it work without that:
services.grafana.settings.plugins = {
allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = "victorialogs-datasource";
};
And then manual installation:
grafana cli --pluginUrl \
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victorialogs-datasource/releases/download/v0.10.0/victorialogs-datasource-v0.10.0.zip \
plugins install victorialogs-datasource