Use Grafana with InfluxDB OSS

Use Grafana or Grafana Cloud to visualize data from your InfluxDB instance.

The instructions in this guide require Grafana Cloud or Grafana v7.1+.

1. Start InfluxDB OSS 2.0.
2. Sign up for Grafana Cloud or download and install Grafana.
3. Visit your Grafana Cloud user interface (UI) or, if running Grafana locally, start Grafana and visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
4. In the left navigation of the Grafana UI, hover over the gear icon to expand the Configuration section. Click Data Sources.
5. Click Add data source.
6. Select InfluxDB from the list of available data sources.
7. On the Data Source configuration page, enter a name for your InfluxDB data source.
8. Under Query Language, select one of the following:

Flux
InfluxQL

Configure Grafana to use Flux

With Flux selected as the query language in your InfluxDB data source, configure your InfluxDB connection:

1. Under Connection, enter the following:

   • URL: Your InfluxDB URL.

     http://localhost:8086/

   • Organization: Your InfluxDB organization name or ID.

   • Token: Your InfluxDB authentication token.

   • Default Bucket: The default bucket to use in Flux queries.

   • Min time interval: The Grafana minimum time interval.

   

2. Click Save & Test. Grafana attempts to connect to the InfluxDB 2.0 datasource and returns the results of the test.

Configure Grafana to use InfluxQL

With InfluxQL selected as the query language in your InfluxDB data source, configure your InfluxDB connection:

1. Under HTTP, enter the following:

   • URL: Your InfluxDB URL.

     http://localhost:8086/

   • Access: Server (default)

2. Under Auth, enable Basic Auth.

3. Under Basic Auth Details, provide your InfluxDB authentication credentials:

   • username: InfluxDB username
   • password: InfluxDB authentication token

4. Under InfluxDB details, set the following:

   • Database: The database to use when querying InfluxDB 2.0. See Database and retention policy mapping.
   • HTTP Method: Select GET.
   • Min time interval: The Grafana minimum time interval.

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1. Click Save & Test. Grafana attempts to connect to the InfluxDB 2.0 datasource and returns the results of the test.

Query and visualize data

With your InfluxDB connection configured, use Grafana and Flux to query and visualize time series data stored in your InfluxDB instance.

For more information about using Grafana, see the Grafana documentation. If you’re just learning Flux, see Get started with Flux.

Related articles

• Grafana documentation
• Get started with Flux

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