Grafana¶

Description¶

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.

Install/Setup¶

When installing the Grafana container, the installer will install under the appdata directory as the root user and you will see errors as such:

mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/grafana/plugins': Permission denied, GF_PATHS_DATA='/var/lib/grafana' is not writable.

However once it is installed you can change the owner/group of it to whatever is required. Run the following command to fix it:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.config/appdata/grafana

Restart your container by running:

docker restart grafana