diff --git a/nix/services/grafana.nix b/nix/services/grafana.nix
index daf4fa80..c89e52e9 100644
--- a/nix/services/grafana.nix
+++ b/nix/services/grafana.nix
@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@ in
       '';
     };
 
+    declarativePlugins = lib.mkOption {
+      type = with types; nullOr (listOf path);
+      default = null;
+      description = "If non-null, then a list of packages containing Grafana plugins to install. If set, plugins cannot be manually installed.";
+      example = "with pkgs.grafanaPlugins; [ grafana-piechart-panel ]";
+      # Make sure each plugin is added only once; otherwise building
+      # the link farm fails, since the same path is added multiple
+      # times.
+      apply = x: if lib.isList x then lib.unique x else x;
+    };
+
     providers = lib.mkOption {
       type = types.listOf yamlFormat.type;
       description = ''
@@ -129,6 +140,7 @@ in
                 mkdir -p $out/plugins
               '';
             };
+            declarativePlugins = pkgs.linkFarm "grafana-plugins" (builtins.map (pkg: { name = pkg.pname; path = pkg; }) config.declarativePlugins);
             startScript = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
               name = "start-grafana";
               runtimeInputs =
@@ -140,6 +152,7 @@ in
                 grafana server --config ${grafanaConfigIni} \
                                --homepath ${config.package}/share/grafana \
                                cfg:paths.data="$(readlink -m ${config.dataDir})" \
+                               ${lib.optionalString (config.declarativePlugins != null) "cfg:paths.plugins=${declarativePlugins}"} \
                                cfg:paths.provisioning="${provisioningConfig}"
               '';
             };
diff --git a/nix/services/grafana_test.nix b/nix/services/grafana_test.nix
index 1b358428..dc12c6ee 100644
--- a/nix/services/grafana_test.nix
+++ b/nix/services/grafana_test.nix
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ in
           };
         }
       ];
+      declarativePlugins = with pkgs.grafanaPlugins; [ grafana-clickhouse-datasource ];
     };
 
   settings.processes.test =
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ in
     {
       # Tests based on: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/grafana/basic.nix
       command = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
-        runtimeInputs = [ cfg.package pkgs.gnugrep pkgs.curl pkgs.uutils-coreutils-noprefix ];
+        runtimeInputs = [ cfg.package pkgs.gnugrep pkgs.curl pkgs.uutils-coreutils-noprefix pkgs.jq ];
         text =
           ''
             ADMIN=${cfg.extraConf.security.admin_user}
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ in
             # The dashboard provisioner was used to create a dashboard.
             curl -sSfN -u $ADMIN:$PASSWORD $ROOT_URL/api/dashboards/uid/${dashboardUid} -i
             curl -sSfN -u $ADMIN:$PASSWORD $ROOT_URL/api/dashboards/uid/${dashboardUid} | grep '"title":"${dashboardTitle}"'
+            # Test for extra plugins added to grafana.
+            curl -sSfN -u $ADMIN:$PASSWORD $ROOT_URL/api/plugins | jq '.[] | select(.id == "grafana-clickhouse-datasource") | .enabled' | grep "true"
           '';
         name = "grafana-test";
       };