No "direct" option for InfluxDB connection in Grafana

[ned14]

I create using:

docker run -d --name docker-influxdb-grafana -p 192.168.2.4:3003:3003 -p 192.168.2.4:8083:8083 -p 192.168.2.4:8086:8086 -v /home/homeassistant/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb -v /home/homeassistant/grafana:/var/lib/grafana philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana:edge

(I changed port 3004, surely makes no difference)

In Grafana's Add Source for InfluxDB, there are choices of "Server" and "Browser" no "Direct" as per docs. Neither option works, both produce an error on "Save and Test"

[philhawthorne]

Looks like this has changed and you should use "Server (default)" For the URL, enter http://localhost:8086 and that should work

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[ned14]

I tried that before as well, still an error.

I found that if you go into the InfluxDB Admin page and create a new database, and then specify that database name along with root/root as the credentials to the Grafana Add Source, that works.

[philhawthorne]

Hmm yes that makes sense. When I don't specify the DB name, Grafana complains that there is no database connected.

Instructions probably need to be clearer that a InfluxDB database needs to be created before you can add it to Grafana

[ned14]

I just got everything up and running, pretty time series graphs. I used https://github.com/Jepsson/esphome-influxdb as a custom component for esphome, the microcontroller now sends sensor readings direct to influxdb no home assistant needed. Very nice. Thanks for your work on this, it saved me a bunch of time arsing around getting docker influx and docker grafana etc etc to talk to each other and to have docker store the DB somewhere persistent. I just wanted to get it up and recording on a secure network, I didn't want to have to arse around with anything else probably much better practice in terms of security.