In this article, a tutorial is provided on how to connect Grafana with InfluxDB IOx by using two different methods. The first method involves installing custom Flight SQL plugins to utilize the SQL query language in Grafana, while the second method uses the Flux query language to access data from InfluxDB. To achieve these configurations, users need to have their InfluxDB connection details handy and follow specific steps such as updating configuration files, allowing unsigned plugins, and setting environment variables. The tutorial concludes by highlighting the two ways of configuring, connecting, and querying time series data from Grafana using InfluxDB IOx.