Grafana PDF Download

Prerequisites:

• Start the Grafana

• configure datasource.

  • Name - PDF_ENDPOINT

  • url - http://localhost:8080/PlatformService/datasource/exportPDF/getDashboardAsPDF(Note: if App is configured with domain name use that to configure)

  • No Auth is required. Click on Save and Test.

• Make sure you have workflow and report jar are running to receive mails.

• Configure your mail id in Grafana → Preference → email. ( For this you need admin permission)

• Configure work type in INSIGHTS_WORKFLOW_TYPE - > GRAFANADASHBOARDPDFREPORT.

• Configure work flow task in INSIGHS_WORKFLOW_TASK as below

  • {
       "description":"GRAFANA_PDF_Execute",
       "mqChannel":"WORKFLOW.TASK.GRAFANAPDF.EXCECUTION",
       "componentName":"com.cognizant.devops.platformreports.assessment.core.GrafanaPDFExecutionSubscriber",
       "dependency":"0",
       "workflowType":"GRAFANADASHBOARDPDFREPORT"
    }

  • {
       "description":"Grafana Email_Exeute",
       "mqChannel":"WORKFLOW.TASK.EMAIL.EXCECUTION",
       "componentName":"com.cognizant.devops.platformreports.assessment.core.ReportEmailSubscriber",
       "dependency":"1",
       "workflowType":"GRAFANADASHBOARDPDFREPORT"
    }

• Check your smtp configurations in server-config.json . Give grafana admin user and password in “userId”: <GrafanaAdminUser>, and “password”:<Grafanaadminpassword>

• Start the Grafana using below commands or configure service with respect to OS.

  • Windows - .\bin\windows-amd64\grafana-server --homepath=.

  • Linux - .\bin\linux-amd64\grafana-server --homepath=.

Usage:

Grafana PDF Download Options:

• Dashboard

  • Click the below icon dropdown and choose dashboard .On click you will get a message "PDF sent to your inbox!" .

  • This option will print the entire dashboard as PDF format which cannot be printable if the dashboard is huge .

Sample pdf for the above dashboard:

• Printable

  • Click the below icon dropdown and choose Printable .On click you will get a message "PDF sent to your inbox!" .

  • This option will print the entire dashboard as PDF format which can be printable .

  • Note: Text panels are not supported in printable . Either remove text panels in dashboard or use Dashboard option

Sample PDF for Printable