Running Grafana behind a reverse proxy

It should be straight forward to get Grafana up and running behind a reverse proxy. But here are some things that you might run into.

Links and redirects will not be rendered correctly unless you set the server.domain setting.

[server]
domain = foo.bar

To use sub path ex http://foo.bar/grafana make sure to include /grafana in the end of root_url. Otherwise Grafana will not behave correctly. See example below.

Examples

Here are some example configurations for running Grafana behind a reverse proxy.

Grafana configuration (ex http://foo.bar)

[server]
domain = foo.bar

Nginx configuration

server {
  listen 80;
  root /usr/share/nginx/www;
  index index.html index.htm;
  location / {
   proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
  }
}

Examples with sub path (ex http://foo.bar/grafana)

Grafana configuration with sub path

[server]
domain = foo.bar
root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s/grafana/

Nginx configuration with sub path

server {
  listen 80;
  root /usr/share/nginx/www;
  index index.html index.htm;
  location /grafana/ {
   proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
  }
}

HAProxy configuration with sub path

frontend http-in
  bind *:80
  use_backend grafana_backend if { path /grafana } or { path_beg /grafana/ }
backend grafana_backend
  # Requires haproxy >= 1.6
  http-request set-path %[path,regsub(^/grafana/?,/)]
  # Works for haproxy < 1.6
  # reqrep ^([^\ ]*\ /)grafana[/]?(.*) \1\2
  server grafana localhost:3000

IIS URL Rewrite Rule (Windows) with Subpath

IIS requires that the URL Rewrite module is installed.

Given:

• subpath grafana
• Grafana installed on http://localhost:3000
• server config:

[server]
domain = localhost:8080
root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s/grafana/

Create an Inbound Rule for the parent website (localhost:8080 in this example) in IIS Manager with the following settings:

• pattern: grafana(/)?(.*)
• check the Ignore case checkbox
• rewrite url set to http://localhost:3000/{R:2}
• check the Append query string checkbox
• check the Stop processing of subsequent rules checkboxThis is the rewrite rule that is generated in the web.config:

<rewrite>
  <rules>
      <rule name="Grafana" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="grafana(/)?(.*)" />
          <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost:3000/{R:2}" logRewrittenUrl="false" />
      </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

See the tutorial on IIS Url Rewrites for more in-depth instructions.