Home Assistant Community Add-on: Grafana

frenck · May 29, 2018, 5:40pm

This add-on is provided by the Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

About

The open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.

Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards. Learn about your Home Automation system using sexy and compelling graphs, and other data visualizations.

Combine this add-on with the InfluxDB add-on to get insanely powerful insights into your home.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

Search for the “Grafana” add-on in the add-on store.
Install the “Grafana” add-on.
Start the “Grafana” add-on.
Check the logs of the “Grafana” to see if everything went well.
Open the Web UI.

Note: As the addon now supports both Ingress and direct access, the default admin user has a password of hassio. Please ensure to change this.

Support

You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation!

Questions? You have several options to get them answered:

The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue on GitHub, in case you ran into a bug, or maybe you have an idea on improving the addon:

Open an issue for the addon: Grafana
For general repository issues or add-on ideas open an issue here

At this moment our Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server and GitHub are our only official support channels. All others rely on community effort.

Repository on GitHub

Looking for more add-ons?

The primary goal of our add-ons project is to provide you (as an Hassio / Home Assistant user) with additional, high quality, add-ons that allow you to take your automated home to the next level.

Check out some of our other add-ons in our Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

frenck · May 29, 2018, 5:40pm

About the author of this add-on

Hi there!

I am Franck Nijhof, and I have 30 years of programming experience, in many languages. I am using this experience to work on the Home Assistant project by giving back my knowledge and time to the open source community.

The add-on you are currently looking at right now was developed/packaged by me. It is not the only add-on I have created; there are many many more

However, I have a problem… I am an addict. A addict that is. Lucky for you, I turn that C8H10N4O2 (caffeine molecule) into code (and add-ons)!

If you want to show your appreciation, consider supporting me for buying a cup of high octane wakey juice via one of the platforms below!

Enjoy your add-on, while I enjoy the brain juice.

Thanks for all the

…/Frenck

P.S.: In case you want to ask me a question: AMA (Ask Me Anything). Most of the time I am online at the Discord chat. (I go by @Frenck in there as well).

gerard33 · May 29, 2018, 7:59pm

Great work again!
After installing the InfluxDB addon yesterday I was already thinking of a Grafana addon and now it’s already there

frenck · May 29, 2018, 8:01pm

Thank you! Releasing the Grafana add-on before the InfluxDB would not have made sense

Prathik_Gopal · May 29, 2018, 11:45pm

Thanks again @frenck, I was expecting this release. Nicely done

gnkarn · May 31, 2018, 6:58pm

@Frenk , is it possible to install other grafana plugins like Plotlyby , or they have to be included in the addon ?,

frenck · June 1, 2018, 5:33am

Yep, see addon documentation

gnkarn · June 1, 2018, 3:49pm

found it , i thought that procedure worked only for the listed plugins, but it works for any . Thankyou

Laith_Alsunni · June 6, 2018, 5:47pm

How do I set it up without InfluxDB?

frenck · June 6, 2018, 9:15pm

Why in earth would you do that?

But yes, you can simply install it, there is no requirement for InfluxDB.

frenck · June 12, 2018, 7:25pm

Release v0.2.0

Full Changelog

Changed

Upgrades Ubuntu base image to 2.0.0
Upgrades libfontconfig1 to 2.12.6-0ubuntu2
Updates memcached to 1.5.6-0ubuntu1
Links and changes to reflect the InfluxDB docs (#3) (@ferazambuja)
Rewrites GitLab CI
Removed i386 (from GitLab CI)

Fulvi_Igor · June 21, 2018, 10:31am

I’m sorry, I’m totally newbie on grafana… I don’t know what are the credentials for login, tried with admin:admin and other standard combinations, but no luck…

frenck · June 21, 2018, 5:15pm

Reading the installation instructions might help I guess…

lweberru · June 27, 2018, 8:41am

I have successfully setup grafana with the influxdb. All works fine. I have created a temperature graph for example. Now I wanted to create a variable with a list of possible temperatur sensors and link them to the query. So I need something like a “select distinct entity_id from …” as variable and then in the query itself a where entity_id = ‘variable_name’. But I am already struggeling getting a list of entity_ids into the variable. Any idea?
Regards

Fulvi_Igor · July 29, 2018, 9:35am

How to update te plugins?

frenck · July 29, 2018, 9:46am

Updating plugins, restarting the add-on should be enough. Since plugins are downloaded on add-on start.

Fulvi_Igor · July 29, 2018, 1:47pm

@frenck … yes but … how to “updating plugins”? just restarted the add-ons, the HASS.io and even the whole server… but plugin are not updated.

frenck · July 29, 2018, 6:18pm

In that case, there are no new plugins update available for this specific setup?
The add-on has NO plugins installed within Grafana. If you add them using the configuration, they will be downloaded on boot time. It will always download the latest available version using the official Grafana tools.

Fulvi_Igor · July 30, 2018, 5:17am

Maybe (for sure) I was not very clear on my previous psot… I’m sorry, but I can’t understand…

This is my Grafana Home:

… and this is my add-on config on HASS.io:

{
  "log_level": "info",
  "ssl": false,
  "certfile": "fullchain.pem",
  "keyfile": "privkey.pem",
  "plugins": [
    "natel-discrete-panel",
    "mtanda-histogram-panel",
    "blackmirror1-singlestat-math-panel",
    "fetzerch-sunandmoon-datasource"
  ]
}

It seems that the Singlestat Math need to be updated… but I was unable to do it!

frenck · July 30, 2018, 9:54am

Release v0.3.0

Full Changelog

Added

Adds support for setting custom environment variables (#5)

Changed

Upgrades Grafana to 5.2.2