Run the Docker image for Grafana

What is Grafana

Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring tool used to create interactive and customizable dashboards for analyzing and monitoring time-series data. It allows users to connect to various data sources, such as databases, cloud platforms, and monitoring systems, and visualize the data in the form of graphs, charts, tables, and alerts.

Grafana supports a wide range of data sources, including popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud, as well as monitoring systems like Prometheus and Graphite. It provides a user-friendly web interface that allows users to create and configure dashboards, define queries to retrieve data from different sources, and design visualizations using a drag-and-drop approach.

With Grafana, you can easily create and organize panels to display your data in real-time, set up alerts and notifications based on defined thresholds, and share your dashboards with others.

Grafana Docker images come in two editions:

• Grafana Enterprise: grafana/grafana-enterprise
• Grafana Open Source: grafana/grafana-oss

Run Grafana via Docker CLI

To run the latest stable version of Grafana, run the following command

Use Persistent Stearge (recommended)

It is recommended to have persistent storage because, without it, all data will be lost once the container is shut down.

Create a Grafana Docker volume grafana-storage by running the following commands

docker volume create grafana-storage

Verify the volume was created correctly.

docker volume inspect grafana-storage

Start the Grafana container by running the following command.

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana \
  --volume grafana-storage:/var/lib/grafana \
  grafana/grafana-enterprise

Sign in to Grafana

To sign in to Grafana for the first time:

Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:3000/.

Default username and password admin

Create a dashboard

1. Click Dashboards in the left-side menu.
2. On the Dashboards page, click New and select New Dashboard from the dropdown menu.
3. On the dashboard, click + Add visualization.