problem installing from source

[rybit]

Hi - I was using the 1.1.0 version linked to by grafana, but I wanted to more up to date features. So I am installing it from source.

After following a slightly modified version of your instructions (below) I am getting this error when creating a new datasource.

instructions:

cd /var/lib/grafana/plugins
sudo git clone https://github.com/grafana/kairosdb-datasource.git
cd kairosdb-datasource
sudo npm install
sudo grunt
sudo service kairosdb restart

I can now see the datasource, but I don't see it working. Also using the grafana-cli lists it as at version 1.0.1

$ grafana-cli plugins ls
installed plugins:
grafana-kairosdb-datasource @ 1.0.1

[jifwin]

Once we merge #40 it should work fine.

[rybit]

Sorry to re-open this but it still seems to not be working.

I updated the checkout to the latest sha (e01a9c7). then ran the commands:

sudo npm install
sudo grunt

they both exited fine, but the grunt task had no output (expected?). Then I restarted grafana server.

grafana version: Version 4.1.1 (commit: v4.1.1)
running on ubuntu 14.04

[jifwin]

Strange... It works for me. Is /var/lib/grafana/plugins/kairosdb-datasource/module.js file generated after gruntification?

[rybit]

Hmmm no it isn't. Grunt doesn't output anything actually. It has a bad error code and no output.

$ sudo grunt
$ echo $?
1
$ which grunt
/usr/local/bin/grunt
$ npm --version
1.3.10
$ nodejs --version
v0.10.25

[jifwin]

Are you running it in /var/lib/grafana/plugins/kairosdb-datasource?

[rybit]

yup!

[jifwin]

Try to install it manually

npm install -g grunt-cli

And then run again.

[rybit]

Ah that is what I had installed on the box. Ran again (with sudo privs). No output when I run grunt from the plugins dir.

[jifwin]

Maybe try to update node and npm

root@613f09d5c2d8:/var/lib/grafana/plugins# node --version
v0.12.0
root@613f09d5c2d8:/var/lib/grafana/plugins# npm --version
2.5.1

[rybit]

resolved - I think that the issue was that I had nodejs not node installed (installing the legacy package fixed it)