Grafana plugin
Monitor the status of your dashboards from your Grafana self-managed environment.
For more information about what this plugin does and the data streams it retrieves, see:
To add a data source click on the + next to Data Sources on the left-hand menu in SquaredUp. Search for the data source and click on it to open the Configure data source page.
You can also add a data source by clicking Add data source on the Settings > Data Sources page, but pre-built dashboards are not added when using this method.
Before you start
The Grafana plugin is a "hybrid" plugin, meaning it is available in SquaredUp as both a cloud and an on-prem plugin.
- Use the cloud plugin if your Grafana instance is available on the internet. You do not need to configure a relay agent.
- Use the on-prem plugin to access a Grafana instance on a server on-prem. You will need to configure a relay agent before you configure the Grafana on-prem plugin.
Configuring and deploying an agent
For an on-prem plugin you will need a relay agent that can access the server hosting your on-prem data source. You do not need a relay agent for cloud plugins.
If you have already created a relay agent in SquaredUp that can access this data source, then you can skip this step and choose the agent group you want to use while Configuring the data source.
See one of the following, depending on your platform type:
Configuring the data source
Display Name:
Enter a name for your data source. This helps you to identify this data source in the list of your data sources.Agent Group:
Select the Agent Group that contains the agent(s) you want to use.This field will only appear if you are adding the on-prem plugin.
- Enter the URL for your Grafana instance.
- Create an API key in Grafana and paste it in to the API Token box.
Install Dashboards:
Select whether you would like to install pre-built dashboards and perspectives with the data source. By default, this is set to on.Restrict access to this data source:
You can enable this option if you only want certain users or groups to have access to the data source, or the permission to link it to new workspaces. See data source access control for more information.Click Test and add to validate the data source configuration. SquaredUp will now attempt to connect to SquaredUp using the provided authentication method.
Next steps
Data streams
The following data streams are installed with this plugin.