Netdata data source for Grafana

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How to install the plugin?

To start using the Netdata data source plugin on your Grafana environment, local or Cloud. Here are some tips to get through this depending on your setup:

• Directly through the Grafana UI
• Docker
• Linux (local)
• Windows (local - powershell)
• Building the plugin locally

The installations below will use different tools like: curl, docker, jq, wget, unzip and xcopy.

Directly through the Grafana UI

Netdata is available in the Grafana Plugin catalog that can be accessed from the Grafana UI. For details on how to: use the Plugin catalog, manage the plugins (install, update, uninstall), and other information, please check this documentation.

Docker

Pre-buit script - setup-demo-environment

We provide you a script setup-demo-environment.sh that will help you setting this up real fast. To start the container with the Netdata datasource plugin already installed you just need to:

setup-demo-environment.sh run

To remove container:

setup-demo-environment.sh remove

This script will:

1. Spin up a grafana container without starting grafana itself
2. Retrieve the latest available release of the Netdata datasource plugin
3. Install the Netdata datasource plugin in /var/lib/grafana/plugins
4. Start grafana

Manual step-by-step

1. Setup your grafana docker container with the the permissions to load netdata plugin

   docker run -d --name=grafana grafana/grafana
   

2. Ensure you have the desired version of the plugin you want to install, get it from github releases

   wget `curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/netdata/netdata-grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name|match("zip$")) | .browser_download_url'`
   

3. Copy the contents of the Netdata data source plugin to Grafana plugins directory, by default /var/lib/grafana/plugins

   unzip netdata-datasource-<version_number>.zip
   docker cp netdata-datasource grafana:/var/lib/grafana/plugins/
   

4. Restart grafana container

   docker restart grafana
   

Linux (local)

1. Ensure you have the desired version of the plugin you want to install, get it from github releases

   wget `curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/netdata/netdata-grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name|match("zip$")) | .browser_download_url'`
   

2. Copy the contents of the Netdata data source plugin to Grafana plugins directory, by default /var/lib/grafana/plugins

   unzip netdata-datasource-<version_number>.zip
   cp -rf netdata-datasource /var/lib/grafana/plugins
   

3. After adding the plugin a restart of grafana server is needed

   For init.d based services you can use the command:

   sudo service grafana-server restart
   

   For systemd based services you can use the following:

   systemctl restart grafana-server
   

Windows (local - powershell)

1. Ensure you have the desired version of the plugin you want to install, get it from github releases by:

   • Going to https://github.com/netdata/netdata-grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/latest
   • Downloading the zip file with the latest release, e.g. netdata-datasource-1.0.12.zip

2. Copy the contents of the Netdata data source plugin to the Grafana plugins directory, by default C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\data\plugins

   Expand-Archive \.netdata-datasource-<version_number>.zip \.
   xcopy .\netdata-datasource\ "C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\data\plugins\netdata-datasource\" /E
   

3. After adding the plugin a restart of grafana server is needed

   net stop Grafana
   net start Grafana
   

Building the plugin locally

For any of the above steps if you prefer to build this plugin locally instead of retrieving it from from the releases you can:

1. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata-grafana-datasource-plugin
   

2. Build it locally

   yarn
   yarn build
   

3. Place the contents of the /dist folder under the netdata folder in Grafana plugins directory.