Grafana displaying authentication box after login

[christianhau]

Problem/Motivation

I have installed grafana and connected it to influxdb as you described in @frenck livestream. Worked magic! I have tried both with and without changing the admin password but the same thing happens. When I open the grafana UI from hassio it gets me to the login screen. Here i can log in and all is good, but when the dashboard is open an authentication box pops up requesting username and password. This does not go away when entering the same username and password used to log into grafana. Note that this did not happen when I first logged in after installing it, only after logging out once and attempting to log in again. See screenshot for what it looks like. Am I missing something really basic?

My config:
{ "ssl": true, "certfile": "fullchain.pem", "keyfile": "privkey.pem", "plugins": [], "env_vars": [] }

Expected behavior

being able to authenticate and log into Grafana

Actual behavior

I go past the login screen but cannot authenticate against the pop up that comes up over the dashboard.

[Mace404]

Seems like the datasource password is not getting saved properly between restarts.
Go to your data source, hit the reset button at the password field and enter the password again.
That solves the login box for me... until the next restart.

[christianhau]

Thanks! Annoying, but worked, would love a fix that enables the password to be properly stored :)

[FreeBSDGeek]

I am having the same issue. Has there been any solution to this issue yet?

[entropie]

Same issue.

I just reset everything and started all over, because I got it working before and broke it while changing everything to SSL. Not sure how i got it working before.

[barrystaes]

Same problem here, same workaround helps.

Had a brand new HassOS and (InfluxDB and) Grafana install, logs sensors OK, but Grafana went broken just like this after first reboot after hass update.

Setting the datasource password in Grafana again does fix the problem until next restart. I also had to make datasource the default (again? Not sure..) otherwise all data was a "random walk" data query.

[jonathanadams]

Setting the data source password again following restart does not work for me. I keep getting a red notification box stating 'e is un defined' along with a green box saying 'datasource updated'. My fix requires me to delete the whole data sorce and add it again.

Is there a perminant fix been worked on?

[rradar]

I have the same problem. I also have the browser dialog after the login in grafana.

It' written:

hassio:3000 your connection is not private

My setup is still missing ssl. Despite what's been input the dialog always (and only) closes after the second attempt (despite credentials are right or wrong I guess).

If I go to my influxdb connection setup in grafana and reset the password it works again.

Hope this get's fixed soon as all alarms in grafana get lost if this error is present

[Hedgehog57]

Same here. Reseting password in grafana datasource interface after reboot fix a problem until next reboot...

[arretx]

Same problem. Just started happening with no clear reason why.

[39domotica]

Same problem. Re-installed the addon and only works until reboot ...

[Hedgehog57]

I think i've found a reason and a solution.

reason:
On each restart "secret_key" is regenerated if not added in Grafana configuration. This parameter is used for encoding datasource passwords. As it's changed Grafana cannot authenticate in database. We cannot edit Grafana config directly but we can set an environment variable.

solution:
Add this in Grafana addon configuration:
"env_vars": [
{
"name": "GF_SECURITY_SECRET_KEY",
"value": "<generate_something_here>"
}
],
This will set secret_key persistent.

[39domotica]

I tried to add your solution but it doesn't work the same.
My conf is follow it:
{
"ssl": true,
"certfile": "fullchain.pem",
"keyfile": "privkey.pem",
"plugins": [],
"env_vars": [
{
"name": "GF_DEFAULT_INSTANCE_NAME",
"value": "Hassio"
},
{
"name": "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP",
"value": "true"
},
{
"name": "GF_SECURITY_SECRET_KEY",
"value": "Hassio"
}
],
"log_level": "info"
}

I still have the same authentication request problem

[Hedgehog57]

I still have the same authentication request problem

There are two type of auth requests.

1. when iframe opened Grafana ask You to authenticate.
2. after You authenticate in Grafana there can be a basic authenticate request. Like on the screenshot of topic starter.

First can be disabled by enabling anonymous auth ion grafana

"name:" "GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS"
"value": "true"

A core of second one is changed security_key. This can be fixed by

"name": "GF_SECURITY_SECRET_KEY",
"value": "Hassio"

Of cource You need to login in grafana after enabling this setting and re-enter password on datasource.

And one more comment. Yo need to rename ORG in Grafana. Or setup which ORG must be used.

links to see:

https://grafana.com/docs/installation/configuration/#secret-key
https://grafana.com/docs/auth/overview/#anonymous-authentication

Grafana Labs Blog

Configuration

Configuration Docs

Grafana Labs Blog

Overview

Overview for auth

[christianhau]

@Hedgehog57 solution did the trick, worked after adding the configuration, resetting the database sources and then restarting.

[frenck]

This is not how it should have been solved.
Releasing a more permanent fix today, please remove those from your configuration.

[frenck]

v2.2.2 released

[koenvanderlinden]

Updated Grafana to v2.2.2. Updated the credentials for all Data Sources.
Problem solved.

[addons-assistant]

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