Grafana Installation

Windows Installation

Step 1:

Click here to download Grafana 9.3.1 zip file.

Step 2:

Unzip the package and replace below files present in conf folder.
- default.ini
- ldap.toml

Grafana Custom Settings Steps

Click here to get ldap.toml.
Download the default.ini for the required version below
- Grafana 9.3.1 defaults.ini
- Grafana 8.4.5 defaults.ini
- Grafana 8.3.3 defaults.ini
- Grafana 7.5.10 defaults.ini
Replace the ldap.toml and content of defaults.ini inside the conf folder in Grafana with the downloaded defaults.ini file content.
Go to the Database section inside file and enter the Database password in the password field.
Following variables are customized in the downloaded default.ini
- Database section

[database]
type = (database type)
host = (database host)
name = grafana
user = (database name)
password = (database password)

- Security section

[security]
# set to true if you want to allow browsers to render Grafana in a <frame>, <iframe>, <embed> or <object>. default is false.
allow_embedding = true

- External Image Storag section

[plugins]
allow_loading_unsigned_plugins = cts-neo-4-j-4-0,Inference,cde-inference-plugin,cognizant-insights-charts

We can check the name of the plugin in package.json in the plugin folder.

(eg. grafana-9.3.1\data\plugins\insights-charts-4-0\package.json

- Grafana Live section

[Live]
max_connections = 0

Step 3:

Click here to download master.zip.
Unzip and copy the iSight_ui3.js in Insights-master\PlatformGrafanaPlugins\ScriptedDashboard.
Place it inside grafana-9.3.1/public/dashboards.

Step 4:

Include the below script tags in the index.html file located in C:\InSights_Windows\Server2\grafana-9.3.1\public\views

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

Step 5:

Copy the plugins in Insights-master\PlatformGrafanaPlugins\Panels.
Place the plugins inside grafana-9.3.1\data\plugins.
Copy the data sources in Insights-master\PlatformGrafanaPlugins\DataSources.
Place the data sources inside grafana-9.3.1\data\plugins.

Step 6:

Add all the files inside img folder (Click here to download img folder) in C:\InSights_Windows\Server2\grafana-9.3.1\public\img.

Step 7:

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 8:

create Grafana service using following command (change the nssm or grafana-9.3.1 if needed)C:\Insights_Deployment\Server2\nssm-2.24\win64\nssm install Grafana9.3.1 "C:\Insights_Deployment\Server2\grafana-9.3.1\bin\grafana-server.exe"
Start the  Grafana9.3.1 service.

Linux Installation

Click here to get the Grafana installation script on RHEL 7.
Click here to get the Grafana installation script on RHEL 8.
Click here to get the Grafana installation script on UBUNTU.

Grafana Migration

Refer the below documentation for Grafana Migration.

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