Installing the Grafana Data Source Plugin

In this tutorial, We will cover three install methods:

• CLI
• Docker
• Local

CLI Install

1. To install the stable version of the plugin using grafana-cli, run the following command:

   grafana-cli --pluginUrl \
   https://github.com/scalyr/scalyr-grafana-datasource-plugin/releases/download/2.3.1/scalyr_grafana_plugin_31da5c7.zip \
   plugins install scalyr-datasource

2. Restart your Grafana server.

   • 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

3. If you require the development version, see the Local Install instructions

Local Install

1. If you want a stable version of plugin, download the desired version from github releases. If you want the development version of the plugin, clone the plugin repository from GitHub.

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

2. Grafana plugins exist in the directory: /var/lib/grafana/plugins/. Create a folder for the DataSet plugin:

   mkdir /var/lib/grafana/plugins/scalyr

3. Copy the contents of the DataSet plugin into grafana:

   Stable version:

   tar -xvf scalyr_grafana_plugin_31da5c7.tar.gz
   cp -rf dist/ /var/lib/grafana/plugins/scalyr/

   Development version:

   cp -r scalyr-grafana-datasource/dist/ /var/lib/grafana/plugins/scalyr/

4. Adding plugins requires a restart of your grafana server.

   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

Docker Install

1. Clone the git repo there.

   cd ~/Documents/Scalyr/Git/

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

   Note: if you've installed Grafana via Docker in the past, you will want to do a docker pull grafana/grafana to fetch the latest version of Grafana.

2. Install the docker image and mount the directory you just cloned. Make sure to change the path to your git repository.

   docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana -e "GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL=http://grafana.server.name" -e "GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret" -v ~/Documents/Scalyr/Git/scalyr-grafana-datasource-plugin/dist:/var/lib/grafana/plugins/scalyr grafana/grafana

3. go to that local address and port.

   http://127.0.0.1:3000

   Username: admin Password: secret

   DataSet data source should be there. Add it here http://127.0.0.1:3000/datasources/new?gettingstarted

   

    

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