Grafana Installation

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Last updated: Dec 14, 2023 by Nishkarsh.Jain2
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 Windows Installation

Step 1:

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
  • 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 async="" src="//www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=[[.GoogleTagManagerId]]">

</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.

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