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Getting Started

Grafana is the open source analytics and monitoring platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces. Available as an open web service in Eyevinn Open Source Cloud, you get a fully managed Grafana instance with support for plugin pre-installation, datasource auto-provisioning, and anonymous access — no infrastructure management required.

Prerequisites

Step-by-step guide

Step 1: Open the Grafana service page

Navigate to the Grafana service page on the OSC dashboard.

Step 2: Create an instance

Click Create grafana and fill in the fields:

Field Description Example
Name Instance name (letters, digits, underscores) mygrafana
PluginsPreinstall (optional) Comma-separated plugin IDs to install at startup grafana-clock-panel,grafana-worldmap-panel
Datasources (optional) Auto-provision a datasource: alias:type:url;user;password influx:influxdb:http://influxdb:8086;admin;secret
AnonymousEnabled (optional) Allow read-only access without login true
AllowEmbedOrigins (optional) Origin allowed to embed Grafana in an iframe https://myapp.example.com

Click Create and wait for the instance status to change to Running.

Step 3: Log in

Once running, click the instance URL to open Grafana. Log in with the default credentials:

  • Username: admin
  • Password: admin

Grafana will prompt you to change the password on first login. Do this before adding any datasources.

Step 4: Add a datasource (manual or auto-provisioned)

Option A — Auto-provision at creation time: Set the Datasources field when creating the instance. The format is:

alias:type:url;username;password

Multiple datasources can be separated with |. For example, to connect to a Prometheus instance:

prom:prometheus:https://myname.birme-osc-prometheus.auto.prod.osaas.io

Option B — Add manually via the UI: After logging in, go to Connections → Data Sources → Add new data source and configure it from the list.

Default credentials

Field Value
Username admin
Password admin (change on first login)

CLI usage

Create a Grafana instance using the OSC CLI:

osc create grafana-grafana mygrafana

With optional parameters:

osc create grafana-grafana mygrafana \
  -o PluginsPreinstall="grafana-clock-panel" \
  -o AnonymousEnabled=true

List your running instances:

osc list grafana-grafana

Remove an instance:

osc remove grafana-grafana mygrafana

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