Upgrade Grafana on Linux

It is recommended to use Grafana with light theme for best user experience of Insights application.

Please follow the instructions given on this page, to upgrade to the latest Grafana version.

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Download Grafana 5 script from Insights - Docroot


  • Grafana for Insights is powered by extremely powerful panels, that are included in the Docroot installation script.
  • Please <Grafana latest is 7> to download the latest script(insights_grafana5.sh).

Upgrade Grafana


  • Stop previous of Grafana running on the instance.
  • Run insights_grafana5.sh.
  • Check GRAFANA_HOME environment variable. It shall point to the latest Grafana5.2.2 folder.
  • Download Grafana 5 init script from docroot. <Grafana latest is 7> to download.
  • Run ./Grafana5.sh start to start Grafana(Usage Grafana5.sh {start|stop|restart|status}).

Download & Replace latest Insights artifacts


  • Download latest Insights version from Nexus3 docroot repo or GitHub.
  • Replace app and PlatformService in Tomcat's webapps directory.
  • Start PlatformEngine as a standalone application or service.
  • Add "grafanaVersion" property in server-config.json as highlighted below - 

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    "grafana": {
        "grafanaEndpoint": "http://localhost:3000",
        "grafanaDBEndpoint": "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/grafana",
        "adminUserName": "user",
        "adminUserPassword": "password",
         "dbUserName": "user",
         "dbPassword": "password",
         "grafanaVersion":"5.2.2"
    }

  • Start Tomcat.

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