Grafana Docker image

This project builds a Docker image with the latest master build of Grafana.

Running your Grafana container

Start your container binding the external port 3000.

docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

Try it out, default admin user is admin/admin.

Configuring your Grafana container

All options defined in conf/grafana.ini can be overriden using environment variables by using the syntax GF_<SectionName>_<KeyName>. For example:

docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL=http://grafana.server.name" \
  -e "GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret" \
  grafana/grafana

More information in the grafana configuration documentation: http://docs.grafana.org/installation/configuration/

Grafana container with persistent storage (recommended)

# create /var/lib/grafana as persistent volume storage
docker run -d -v /var/lib/grafana --name grafana-storage busybox:latest

# start grafana
docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  --volumes-from grafana-storage \
  grafana/grafana

Installing plugins for Grafana 3

Pass the plugins you want installed to docker with the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable as a comma seperated list. This will pass each plugin name to grafana-cli plugins install ${plugin}.

docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-clock-panel,grafana-simple-json-datasource" \
  grafana/grafana

Running specific version of Grafana

# specify right tag, e.g. 2.6.0 - see Docker Hub for available tags
docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name grafana \
  grafana/grafana:2.6.0

Configuring AWS credentials for CloudWatch support

docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_AWS_PROFILES=default" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_KEY" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_REGION=us-east-1" \
  grafana/grafana

You may also specify multiple profiles to GF_AWS_PROFILES (e.g. GF_AWS_PROFILES=default another).

Supported variables:

• GF_AWS_${profile}_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS access key ID (required).
• GF_AWS_${profile}_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS secret access key (required).
• GF_AWS_${profile}_REGION: AWS region (optional).

Changelog

v4.2.0

• Plugins are now installed into ${GF_PATHS_PLUGINS}
• Building the container now requires a full url to the deb package instead of just version
• Fixes bug caused by installing multiple plugins

v4.0.0-beta2

• Plugins dir (/var/lib/grafana/plugins) is no longer a separate volume

v3.1.1

• Make it possible to install specific plugin version grafana#59 (comment)