Upgrade Grafana on Windows

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 from Insights - Docroot


  • Grafana for Insights is powered by extremely powerful panels, that are included in the Nexus3 Docroot repo installation zip.
  • Please click here to download the latest zip.

Replace important files from the previous version


  • Unzip the zip file, go-to the folder location inside Grafana folder - "conf".
  • Replace defaults.inildap.toml files from your previous version of Grafana.

Start Grafana


  • Run grafana-server.exe file from the bin folder of Grafana or create it as a windows service as per convenience.

Download & Replace latest Insights artifacts


  • Download latest Insights version from Nexus3 DocRoot 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":"7.1.0"
    }

  • Start Tomcat.

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