Ansible role: grafana

A Simple Ansible role to manage grafana, configure datasources [ well just Prometheus ATM] and import dashboards.

Here's what it does:

• Install grafana package and dependencies and start service
• Update default password
• Install grafana plugins
• Configure Prometheus datasource
• Import dashboards from the files directory into /var/lib/grafana/dsahboards

TODO / WIP (Pull request anyone ? ;)

• Add support of adding grafana dashboards via git

Role Variables

role flags:

• grafana_configure: true - if you want no configuration this is the option for you to set to false
• grafana_prometehus: true - configures grafana with a datasource named Prometheus as the default datasource.

Variables worth mentioning:

• grafana_http_port: 3000

• grafana_admin_user: admin

• grafana_admin_password: admin123

• Grafana plugins using grafana-cli:

    grafana_plugins:
      - grafana-clock-panel
      - grafana-simple-json-datasource
      - grafana-worldmap-panel
      - grafana-piechart-panel
      - digiapulssi-breadcrumb-panel
      - crate-datasource
  

In production I don't want people changing dashboards without going through Git ... hence this method seemed sufficient

• grafana_dir_dashboards: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards
• TODO move to git based population ...

Prometheus Integration:

• grafana_prometehus: true
• grafana_prometehus_host: localhost
• grafana_prometehus_port: 9090
• TODO: look at authentication

Grafana Database:

  grafana_database:
    type: sqlite3
    host: 127.0.0.1:3306
    name: grafana
    user: root
    password: ''
    path: grafana.db

TODO: Check other storage options

Example Playbook

- hosts: centos,ubuntu
  roles:
    - shelleg.grafana

License

Apache 2

Author Information

Haggai Philip Zagury