Grafana

A beautiful, easy to use and feature rich Graphite dashboard replacement and graph editor.

Sample pillars

Server deployments

Server installed from system package and listening on 1.2.3.4:3000 (the default is 0.0.0.0:3000)

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    bind:
      address: 1.2.3.4
      port: 3000
    admin:
      user: admin
      password: passwd
    database:
      engine: sqlite3

Server installed with PostgreSQL database

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    admin:
      user: admin
      password: passwd
    database:
      engine: postgresql
      host: localhost
      port: 5432
      name: grafana
      user: grafana
      password: passwd

Server installed with LDAP authentication and all authenticated users are administrators

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    admin:
      user: admin
      password: passwd
    auth:
      ldap:
        enabled: true
        host: '127.0.0.1'
        port: 389
        use_ssl: false
        bind_dn: "cn=admin,dc=grafana,dc=org"
        bind_password: "grafana"
        user_search_filter: "(cn=%s)"
        user_search_base_dns:
        - "dc=grafana,dc=org"

Server installed with LDAP and basic authentication

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    admin:
      user: admin
      password: passwd
    auth:
      basic:
        enabled: true
      ldap:
        enabled: true
        host: '127.0.0.1'
        port: 389
        use_ssl: false
        bind_dn: "cn=admin,dc=grafana,dc=org"
        bind_password: "grafana"
        user_search_filter: "(cn=%s)"
        user_search_base_dns:
        - "dc=grafana,dc=org"

Server installed with LDAP for authentication and authorization

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    admin:
      user: admin
      password: passwd
    auth:
      ldap:
        enabled: true
        host: '127.0.0.1'
        port: 389
        use_ssl: false
        bind_dn: "cn=admin,dc=grafana,dc=org"
        bind_password: "grafana"
        user_search_filter: "(cn=%s)"
        user_search_base_dns:
        - "dc=grafana,dc=org"
        group_search_filter: "(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=%s))"
        group_search_base_dns:
        - "ou=groups,dc=grafana,dc=org"
        authorization:
          enabled: true
          admin_group: "admins"
          editor_group: "editors"
          viewer_group: "viewers"

Server installed with default StackLight JSON dashboards. This will be replaced by the possibility for a service to provide its own dashboard using salt-mine.

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    dashboards:
      enabled: true
      path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards

Server with theme overrides

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    theme:
      light:
        css_override:
          source: http://path.to.theme
          source_hash: sha256=xyz
          build: xyz
      dark:
        css_override:
          source: salt://path.to.theme

Server with two additionals plugins. It requires to have access to the Internet.

grafana:
  server:
    enabled: true
    plugins:
      grafana-piechart-panel:
        enabled: true
      grafana-example-app:
        enabled: true

Collector setup

Used to aggregate dashboards from monitoring node.

grafana:
  collector:
    enabled: true

Client setups

Client with token based auth

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    server:
      protocol: https
      host: grafana.host
      port: 3000
      token: token

Client with base auth

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    server:
      protocol: https
      host: grafana.host
      port: 3000
      user: admin
      password: password

Client enforcing graphite data source

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    datasource:
      graphite:
        type: graphite
        host: mtr01.domain.com
        protocol: https
        port: 443

Client enforcing elasticsearch data source

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    datasource:
      elasticsearch:
        type: elasticsearch
        host: log01.domain.com
        port: 80
        index: grafana-dash

Client defined and enforced dashboard

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    server:
      host: grafana.host
      port: 3000
      token: token
    dashboard:
      system_metrics:
        title: "Generic system metrics"
        style: dark
        editable: false
        row:
          top:
            title: "First row"

Client enforced dashboards defined in salt-mine

grafana:
  client:
    enabled: true
    remote_data:
      engine: salt_mine
    server:
      host: grafana.host
      port: 3000
      token: token

Usage

There's a difference between JSON dashboard representation and models we us. The lists used in JSON format [for rows, panels and target] were replaced by dictionaries. This form of serialization allows better merging and overrides of hierarchical data structures that dashboard models are.

The default format of Grafana dashboards with lists for rows, panels and targets.

system_metrics:
  title: graph
  editable: true
  hideControls: false
  rows:
  - title: Usage
    height: 250px
    panels:
    - title: Panel Title
      span: 6
      editable: false
      type: graph
      targets:
      - refId: A
        target: "support_prd.cfg01_iot_tcpcloud_eu.cpu.0.idle"
      datasource: graphite01
      renderer: flot
    showTitle: true

The modified version of Grafana dashboard format with dictionary declarations. Please note that dictionary keys are only for logical separation and are not displayed in generated dashboards.

system_metrics:
    system_metrics2:
      title: graph
      editable: true
      hideControls: false
      row:
        usage:
          title: Usage
          height: 250px
          panel:
            usage-panel:
              title: Panel Title
              span: 6
              editable: false
              type: graph
              target:
                A:
                  refId: A
                  target: "support_prd.cfg01_iot_tcpcloud_eu.cpu.0.idle"
              datasource: graphite01
              renderer: flot
          showTitle: true

Read more

• http://grafana.org/
• http://docs.grafana.org/reference/export_import/

Documentation and Bugs

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