Use Grafana with InfluxDB OSS

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 API 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

To query InfluxDB OSS 2.0 with InfluxQL, find your use case below, and then complete the instructions to configure Grafana:

• Installed a new InfluxDB 2.0 instance
• Upgraded from InfluxDB 1.x to 2.0 (following the official upgrade)
• Manually migrated from InfluxDB 1.x to 2.0

Installed a new InfluxDB 2.0 instance

To configure Grafana to use InfluxQL with a new install of InfluxDB 2.0, do the following:

1. Authenticate with InfluxDB 2.0 tokens.
2. Manually create DBRP mappings.

Upgraded from InfluxDB 1.x to 2.0

To configure Grafana to use InfluxQL when you’ve upgraded from InfluxDB 1.x to InfluxDB 2.0 (following an official upgrade guide):

1. Authenticate using the non-admin v1 compatible authentication credentials created during the upgrade process.
2. Use the DBRP mappings InfluxDB automatically created in the upgrade process (no action necessary).

Manually migrated from InfluxDB 1.x to 2.0

To configure Grafana to use InfluxQL when you’ve manually migrated from InfluxDB 1.x to InfluxDB 2.0, do the following:

1. If your InfluxDB 1.x instance required authentication, create v1 compatible authentication credentials to match your previous 1.x username and password. Otherwise, use InfluxDB v2 token authentication.
2. Manually create DBRP mappings.

influx v1 auth list

influx v1 auth create \
  --read-bucket 00xX00o0X001 \
  --write-bucket 00xX00o0X001 \
  --username example-user

influx v1 dbrp list

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db example-db \
  --rp example-rp \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X001 \
  --default

# Create telegraf/autogen DBRP mapping with autogen
# as the default RP for the telegraf DB

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db telegraf \
  --rp autogen \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X001 \
  --default

# Create telegraf/downsampled-daily DBRP mapping that
# writes to a different bucket

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db telegraf \
  --rp downsampled-daily \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X002

Configure your InfluxDB connection

With InfluxQL selected as the query language in your InfluxDB data source settings:

1. Under HTTP, enter the following:

   • URL: Your InfluxDB URL.

     http://localhost:8086/
     

   • Access: Server (default)

2. Configure InfluxDB authentication:

   • Token authentication

     Under Custom HTTP Headers, select Add Header. Provide your InfluxDB API token:

     • Header: Enter Authorization

     • Value: Use the Token schema and provide your InfluxDB API token. For example:

       Token y0uR5uP3rSecr3tT0k3n
       

   • Authenticate with username and password

     Under InfluxDB Details, do the following:

     • Database: Enter the database name mapped to your InfluxDB 2.0 bucket
     • User: Enter the username associated with your InfluxDB 1.x compatibility authorization
     • Password: Enter the password associated with your InfluxDB 1.x compatibility authorization
     • HTTP Method: Select GET

3. Click Save & Test. Grafana attempts to connect to the InfluxDB 2.0 data source and returns the results of the test.