[Feature] Gzip Compression to improve retrieval performance

[Jayclifford345]

To help with ingest performance we have had a few community discussions around gzip compression: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-infinity-datasource/discussions/779

Another user via slack

I’ve been working extensively with the Grafana Infinity plugin that @yesoreyeram / @Sriram and Grafana Labs have developed that , and I’ve run into a performance bottleneck that I think could be addressed by adding gzip compression support. For projects handling large datasets (like mine), the lack of gzip support can significantly slow down data transfer and visualization performance. Gzip could dramatically reduce payload size, which is a huge win, especially for real-time dashboards with large amounts of data. This would allow users to have faster dashboards and reduce network strain. I believe that gzip support would make Infinity even more versatile and powerful. Could you please advise the best place to formally submit this feature request? if you can help push this forward internally, it would mean a lot. I genuinely think this enhancement could benefit many Grafana users, especially those dealing with large datasets.