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Grafana 3.0 with Blueflood datasource

Ryan Stewart edited this page May 4, 2022 · 15 revisions

In order to use Grafana 3, you need to do the following:

Use Docker to spin up Graphite API

Make sure you can run Docker and use it to start Graphite API

See plugin README page for instructions.

Download and Install Grafana 3

Install Grafana from here: http://grafana.org/download/

Install and configure Blueflood plugin for Grafana

Look for "Blueflood" datasource and follow the instruction to download it.

(Note, for Mac you need to use the --pluginsDir path to install it correctly)

$ grafana-cli --pluginsDir /usr/local/var/lib/grafana/plugins plugins install  rackerlabs-blueflood-datasource
installing rackerlabs-blueflood-datasource @ 0.0.2
from url: https://grafana.net/api/plugins/rackerlabs-blueflood-datasource/versions/0.0.2/download
into: /usr/local/var/lib/grafana/plugins

✔ Installed rackerlabs-blueflood-datasource successfully

Start Grafana

The following command is for Mac:

grafana-server --config=/usr/local/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --homepath /usr/local/share/grafana cfg:default.paths.logs=/usr/local/var/log/grafana cfg:default.paths.data=/usr/local/var/lib/grafana cfg:default.paths.plugins=/usr/local/var/lib/grafana/plugins

Use Heat Template

(to be finished and updated here: https://github.com/rackspace-orchestration-templates/grafana)