grafana/docs/sources/installation/docker.md

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Installing using Docker

Grafana is very easy to install and run using the offical docker container.

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

All Grafana configuration settings can be defined using environment variables, this is especially useful when using the above container.

Docker volumes & ENV config

The Docker container exposes two volumes, the sqlite3 database in the folder /var/lib/grafana and configuration files is in /etc/grafana/ folder. You can map these volumes to host folders when you start the container:

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \
    -v /var/lib/grafana:/var/lib/grafana \
    -e "GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret" \
    grafana/grafana

In the above example I map the data folder and sets a configuration option via an ENV instruction.

See the docker volumes documentation if you want to create a volume to use with the Grafana docker image instead of a bind mount (binding to a directory in the host system).

Configuration

All options defined in conf/grafana.ini can be overridden using environment variables by using the syntax GF_<SectionName>_<KeyName>. For example:

$ docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL=http://grafana.server.name" \
  -e "GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret" \
  grafana/grafana

You can use your own grafana.ini file by using environment variable GF_PATHS_CONFIG.

The back-end web server has a number of configuration options. Go to the [Configuration]({{< relref "configuration.md" >}}) page for details on all those options.

Installing Plugins for Grafana

Pass the plugins you want installed to docker with the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable as a comma separated list. This will pass each plugin name to grafana-cli plugins install ${plugin}.

docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=grafana-clock-panel,grafana-simple-json-datasource" \
  grafana/grafana

Running a Specific Version of Grafana

# specify right tag, e.g. 4.5.2 - see Docker Hub for available tags
$ docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name grafana \
  grafana/grafana:4.5.2

Configuring AWS Credentials for CloudWatch Support

$ docker run \
  -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --name=grafana \
  -e "GF_AWS_PROFILES=default" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_KEY" \
  -e "GF_AWS_default_REGION=us-east-1" \
  grafana/grafana

You may also specify multiple profiles to GF_AWS_PROFILES (e.g. GF_AWS_PROFILES=default another).

Supported variables:

• GF_AWS_${profile}_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS access key ID (required).
• GF_AWS_${profile}_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS secret access key (required).
• GF_AWS_${profile}_REGION: AWS region (optional).