Grafana Installation for windows

For Installation / Upgradation of Grafana in Windows

Steps for grafana upgradation

Step 1:

Step 2:

Unzip the package and replace below files present in conf folder.
- default.ini (click here to download default.ini)
- ldap.toml (click here to download ldap.ini)
- custom.ini (click here to download custom.ini if needed)

Step 3:

Particularly server, database, auth.proxy, allow_loading_unsigned_plugins section of default.ini need to be change if required in migration.
neo4j-datasource,Inference,cde-inference-plugin,cde-fusion-panel plugins are not signed plugins so we have to allow loading these plugins using the property as below. If this property is not set, we don’t see the plugins in Grafana.
allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = neo4j-datasource,Inference,cde-inference-plugin,cde-fusion-panel

Step 4:

Click here to download the iSight_ui3.js and place it inside grafana-8.4.3/public/dashboards.

Step 5:

Paste the below line in index.xml inside C:\InSights_Windows\Server2\grafana-8.4.3\public\views

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>

Step 6:

Step 7:

Add the following images inside C:\InSights_Windows\Server2\grafana-8.4.3\public\img.
- satisfied (click here to download satisfied.png)
- dissatisfied (click here to download dissatisfied.png )

Step 8:

Postgres Backup Steps (if you are upgrading grafana)
- Stop the previous version of Grafana running on the instance.
- Follow the below steps to backup existing database
- Navigate to <postgres_installation_path>/bin
- Backup DB by executing the command pg_dump --username=username --password grafana > grafana_backup

Step 9:

create Grafana service using following command (change the nssm or grafana-8.4.3 if needed)C:\Insights_Deployment\Server2\nssm-2.24\win64\nssm install Grafana8.4.3 "C:\Insights_Deployment\Server2\grafana-8.4.3\bin\grafana-server.exe"
Start the  Grafana8.4.3 service.

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