Grafana

Overview

Grafana is a data monitoring and observability platform that allows you to collect and understand data from tools used throughout your organization. Grafana makes it easy to query data from many different sources, build graphs and dashboards to track changes in metrics, import and analyze logs, and send alerts when customizable thresholds are passed. With a large ecosystem of plugins and complementary systems, Grafana can be extended to work with whatever data is most important to you.

Requirements

• A PostgreSQL connection string. You can start up a PostgreSQL database on Koyeb using Koyeb Database Services.

Configuration

When deploying Grafana on Koyeb, the following environment variables will be provided. Take care to set the required variables with the appropriate values if not set.

Variable	Description	Required	Default value
GF_SERVER_HTTP_PORT	The port that Grafana runs on.	Yes	8000
GF_DATABASE_TYPE	The type of database used.	Yes	postgres
GF_DATABASE_URL	The connection string for your PostgreSQL database.	Yes
GF_DATABASE_SSL_MODE	The SSL configuration for connecting to the database.	Yes	require
GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS	A comma-separated list of Grafana plugins to add.	No	grafana-github-datasource

Be sure to set GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS to the list of plugins you want to enable. You can find out more by checking out the plugin library and viewing the documentation on specifying plugins.

The username and password are both set to admin initially.

Other resources related to Grafana

• Official Grafana documentation
• Tutorial on setting up Grafana on Koyeb