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Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB.
Installation
Head to docs.grafana.org and download
the latest release.
If you have any problems please read the troubleshooting guide.
Documentation & Support
Be sure to read the getting started guide and the other feature guides.
Run from master
If you want to build a package yourself, or contribute - here is a guide for how to do that. You can always find
the latest master builds here
Dependencies
- Go (Latest Stable)
- Node.js LTS
Building the backend
go get github.com/grafana/grafana
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/grafana
go run build.go setup
go run build.go build
Building frontend assets
For this you need Node.js (LTS version).
To build the assets, rebuild on file change, and serve them by Grafana's webserver (http://localhost:3000):
npm install -g yarn
yarn install --pure-lockfile
yarn watch
Build the assets, rebuild on file change with Hot Module Replacement (HMR), and serve them by webpack-dev-server (http://localhost:3333):
yarn start
# OR set a theme
env GRAFANA_THEME=light yarn start
Note: HMR for Angular is not supported. If you edit files in the Angular part of the app, the whole page will reload.
Run tests
yarn jest
Recompile backend on source change
To rebuild on source change.
go get github.com/Unknwon/bra
bra run
Open grafana in your browser (default: http://localhost:3000
) and login with admin user (default: user/pass = admin/admin
).
Building a Docker image
There are two different ways to build a Grafana docker image. If your machine is setup for Grafana development and you run linux/amd64 you can build just the image. Otherwise, there is the option to build Grafana completely within Docker.
Run the image you have built using: docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana:dev
Building on linux/amd64 (fast)
- Build the frontend
go run build.go build-frontend
- Build the docker image
make build-docker-dev
The resulting image will be tagged as grafana/grafana:dev
Building anywhere (slower)
Choose this option to build on platforms other than linux/amd64 and/or not have to setup the Grafana development environment.
make build-docker-full
or docker build -t grafana/grafana:dev .
The resulting image will be tagged as grafana/grafana:dev
Notice: If you are using Docker for MacOS, be sure to set the memory limit to be larger than 2 GiB (at docker -> Preferences -> Advanced), otherwise grunt build
may fail.
Dev config
Create a custom.ini in the conf directory to override default configuration options.
You only need to add the options you want to override. Config files are applied in the order of:
- grafana.ini
- custom.ini
In your custom.ini uncomment (remove the leading ;
) sign. And set app_mode = development
.
Running tests
Frontend
Execute all frontend tests
yarn test
Writing & watching frontend tests
- Start watcher:
yarn jest
- Jest will run all test files that end with the name ".test.ts"
Backend
# Run Golang tests using sqlite3 as database (default)
go test ./pkg/...
# Run Golang tests using mysql as database - convenient to use /docker/blocks/mysql_tests
GRAFANA_TEST_DB=mysql go test ./pkg/...
# Run Golang tests using postgres as database - convenient to use /docker/blocks/postgres_tests
GRAFANA_TEST_DB=postgres go test ./pkg/...
Contribute
If you have any ideas for improvement or have found a bug, do not hesitate to open an issue.
And if you have time, clone this repo and submit a pull request to help me make Grafana
the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!
Read the contributing guide then check the beginner friendly
label to find issues that are easy and that we would like help with.
Plugin development
Checkout the Plugin Development Guide and checkout the PLUGIN_DEV.md file for changes in Grafana that relate to
plugin development.
License
Grafana is distributed under Apache 2.0 License.