tam481
July 15, 2020, 9:47pm
1
Hello all,
I can remove panels from the default Home dashboard. If I create a custom dashboard everything seems to be OK but as soon as I log out and re-login (to the default admin account) it is as if I’m logging in for the first time.
Here’s my docker-compose file
grafana:
image: grafana/grafana:latest
user: root
restart: unless-stopped
container_name: grafana
volumes:
- $PWD/data/grafana:/var/lib/grafana
- $PWD/conf/grafana:/etc/grafana
- $PWD/logs/grafana:/var/log/grafana
- $PWD/data/grafana/provisioning:/etc/grafana/provisioning
environment:
- "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-clock-panel,grafana-simple-json-datasource,grafana-piechart-panel"
networks:
- backend
What am I doing wrong? Initially, the container complained about not finding directories (dashboard, datasources and notifiers) within the provisioning directory which I expected it to create under /etc/grafana so to overcome that I added the last binding and manually created these directories under the provisioning directory.
Thank you in advance
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Have you made the data directories first? Are the permissions on them correct? Personally i hate using $PWD and always set a full path. I like using /docker_data as it makes it obvious to anyone after me what it is.
Try this…
version: '3'
services:
grafana:
image: grafana/grafana
container_name: grafana
depends_on:
- influxdb
ports:
- 3000:3000
volumes:
- /docker_data/grafana_data:/var/lib/grafana
- /docker_data/certs:/certs
env_file:
- /docker_data/grafana_conf/config.monitoring
environment:
- HTTP_USER="{{ grafana_user }}"
- HTTP_PASS="{{ grafana_passwd }}"
- INFLUXDB_HOST=influxdb
- INFLUXDB_PORT=8086
- INFLUXDB_NAME="{{ db_name }}"
- INFLUXDB_USER="{{ influxdb_user }}"
- INFLUXDB_PASS="{{ influxdb_passwd }}"
restart: always
prometheus:
image: prom/prometheus
container_name: prometheus
volumes:
- /docker_data/prometheus_conf:/etc/prometheus/
- /docker_data/prometheus_data:/prometheus
command:
- '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
- '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
- '--web.console.libraries=/usr/share/prometheus/console_libraries'
- '--web.console.templates=/usr/share/prometheus/consoles'
ports:
- 9090:9090
links:
- grafana
- influxdb
restart: always
influxdb:
image: docker.io/influxdb
container_name: influxdb
ports:
- "8086:8086"
volumes:
- /docker_data/influxdb_data:/var/lib/influxdb
env_file:
- '/docker_data/influxdb_conf/env.influxdb'
restart: always
That should give you a stack.
I use Ansible for all the lifting -
docker-install.yml
---
-
connection: localhost
hosts: localhost
tasks:
-
args:
chdir: /home/
command: "curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh"
name: "Download docker script"
-
name: "run docker script"
script: /home/get-docker.sh
-
name: "start Docker"
service:
name: docker
state: started
-
apt:
name: python-pip
state: present
name: "install pip"
register: results
-
debug:
var: results
-
command: "pip install docker-compose"
name: "install docker-compose"
-
name: "include vars file"
include_vars: docker_install.var.yml
-
name: "create docker data folders"
file:
path: "{{ item }}"
state: directory
mode: 0777
with_items:
- /docker_data/portainer_data
- /docker_data/influxdb_data
- /docker_data/grafana_data
- /docker_data/chronograf_data
- /docker_data/prometheus_data
-
name: "create docker config folders"
file:
path: "{{ item }}"
state: directory
mode: 0775
with_items:
- /docker_data/influxdb_conf
- /docker_data/grafana_conf
- /docker_data/prometheus_conf
-
name: "create telegraf.conf from template values"
template:
dest: /docker_data/telegraf_conf/telegraf.conf
src: telegraf.conf.jk2
-
name: "create telegraf.conf outputs from template values"
template:
dest: /docker_data/telegraf_conf/telegraf.d/telegraf.outputs.conf
src: telegraf.outputs.conf.j2
-
name: "create telegraf.conf inputs from template values"
template:
dest: /docker_data/telegraf_conf/telegraf.d/telegraf.inputs.conf
src: telegraf.inputs.jk2
-
file:
mode: 420
path: /docker_data/telegraf_conf/telegraf.conf
name: "change file permission"
-
name: "create grafanacfg.output file with values"
template:
dest: /docker_data/grafana_conf/grafanacfg.output
src: grafanacfg.input.jk2
-
name: "create influx env file"
template:
dest: /docker_data/influxdb_conf/env.influxdb
src: env.influxdb.j2
-
name: "create grafana config file"
template:
dest: /docker_data/grafana_conf/config.monitoring
src: config.monitoring.j2
-
name: "create docker-compose.yml from template"
template:
dest: /docker_data/docker-compose.yml
src: docker-compose.yml.j2
-
name: "create docker-compose .env from template"
template:
dest: /docker_data/.env
src: docker-compose.env.j2
-
args:
chdir: /docker_data/
command: "docker-compose build"
name: "docker build"
-
args:
chdir: /docker_data/
command: "docker-compose up -d"
name: "docker up"
-
name: "Wait 300 seconds for port 3000 to become open on the host, don't start checking for 10 seconds"
wait_for:
delay: 10
port: 3000
-
name: "Set Grafana admin password"
command: docker exec -t grafana bash -c 'grafana-cli --homepath /usr/share/grafana admin reset-admin-password "{{ grafana_passwd }}"'
-
name: "check if grafana can be accessed"
command: "curl -s http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/api/org -u {{ grafana_user }}:{{ grafana_passwd }}"
-
name: "create datasoure in grafana"
command: "curl -L --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d@//docker_data/grafana_conf/grafanacfg.output http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/api/datasources -u {{ grafana_user }}:{{ grafana_passwd }}"
-
name: "create TelegrafHost dashboard in grafana using jsonfile"
command: "curl -L --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d@/home/Configfiles/dashboards/TelegrafHostMetrics.json http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/api/dashboards/db -u {{ grafana_user }}:{{ grafana_passwd }}"
-
name: "create DockerMetrics dashboard in grafana using jsonfile"
command: "curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d@/home/Configfiles/dashboards/DockerMetricsperContainer.json http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/api/dashboards/db -u {{ grafana_user }}:{{ grafana_passwd }}"
-
name: "create JVM dashboard in grafana using jsonfile"
command: "curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d@/home/Configfiles/dashboards/jvm-metrics-jolokia-2_rev1.json http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/api/dashboards/db -u {{ grafana_user }}:{{ grafana_passwd }}"
docker-install.var.yml (example this wont work!)
grafana_user: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
grafana_passwd: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
influxdb_admin_user: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
influxdb_admin_passwd: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
influxdb_user: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
influxdb_passwd: !vault |
$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
I suggest you use ansible-vault to not save passwords in plain text.
This should give you a good start, there are some files you will need to create, they are mainly your current config files saved as .jk2 or j2 (where I forgot the k). The dashborads I auto deploy can be removed or you can go to the Grafana page for them and download the yml.
tam481
July 23, 2020, 4:37pm
3
Thank you very much for your help.
I thought it had something to do with Grafana being behind Traefik so I tested a standalone container with port 3000 exposed on http and found that it did the same thing so I know for sure it’s not Traefik.
Any ideas?
alex440
September 18, 2021, 12:25pm
4
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