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Kudos on siridb excellent work there,
I'd like to ask whether it makes sense to support the plugin with the ability to specify custom queries by a text field, which apparently isn't possible now.

For example I wanted to implement a graph where limited by top 5 entries, and found that it's not possible (at least for me) to do it in grafana directly.

Most likely it is not (only) this datasource but also Grafana itself where changes are required to support alerting for SiriDB.

http://docs.grafana.org/alerting/rules/

The alert rules are evaluated in the Grafana backend in a scheduler and query execution engine that is part of core Grafana. Only some data sources are supported right now. They include Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, MySQL, Postgres and Cloudwatch.

http://docs.grafana.org/reference/templating/#global-built-in-variables

Being able to use $__interval in custom queries would drasically improve query performance when changing the displayed time interval.