grafana/README.md

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Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB.

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## Installation
Head to [docs.grafana.org](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/) for documentation or [download](https://grafana.com/get) to get the latest release.

## Documentation & Support
Be sure to read the [getting started guide](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/gettingstarted/) and the other feature guides.

## Run from master
If you want to build a package yourself, or contribute - here is a guide for how to do that. You can always find
the latest master builds [here](https://grafana.com/grafana/download)

### Dependencies

- Go (Latest Stable)
  - bra [`go get github.com/Unknwon/bra`]
- Node.js LTS
  - yarn [`npm install -g yarn`]

### Get the project

**The project located in the go-path will be your working directory.**

```bash
go get github.com/grafana/grafana
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/grafana/grafana
```

### Building

#### The backend

```bash
go run build.go setup
go run build.go build
```

#### Frontend assets

*For this you need Node.js (LTS version).*

```bash
yarn install --pure-lockfile
```

### Run and rebuild on source change

#### Backend

To run the backend and rebuild on source change:

```bash
$GOPATH/bin/bra run
```

#### Frontend

Rebuild on file change, and serve them by Grafana's webserver (http://localhost:3000):

```bash
yarn start
```

Build the assets, rebuild on file change with Hot Module Replacement (HMR), and serve them by webpack-dev-server (http://localhost:3333):

```bash
yarn start:hot
# OR set a theme
env GRAFANA_THEME=light yarn start:hot
```

*Note: HMR for Angular is not supported. If you edit files in the Angular part of the app, the whole page will reload.*

Run tests and rebuild on source change:

```bash
yarn jest
```

**Open grafana in your browser (default: e.g. `http://localhost:3000`) and login with admin user (default: `user/pass = admin/admin`).**

### Building a Docker image

There are two different ways to build a Grafana docker image. If your machine is setup for Grafana development and you run linux/amd64 you can build just the image. Otherwise, there is the option to build Grafana completely within Docker.

Run the image you have built using: `docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana:dev`

#### Building on linux/amd64 (fast)

1. Build the frontend `go run build.go build-frontend`
2. Build the docker image `make build-docker-dev`

The resulting image will be tagged as `grafana/grafana:dev`

#### Building anywhere (slower)

Choose this option to build on platforms other than linux/amd64 and/or not have to setup the Grafana development environment.

1. `make build-docker-full` or `docker build -t grafana/grafana:dev .`

The resulting image will be tagged as `grafana/grafana:dev`

Notice: If you are using Docker for MacOS, be sure to set the memory limit to be larger than 2 GiB (at docker -> Preferences -> Advanced), otherwise `grunt build` may fail.

## Development

### Dev config

Create a custom.ini in the conf directory to override default configuration options.
You only need to add the options you want to override. Config files are applied in the order of:

1. grafana.ini
1. custom.ini

In your custom.ini uncomment (remove the leading `;`) sign. And set `app_mode = development`.

### Running tests

#### Frontend
Execute all frontend tests
```bash
yarn test
```

Writing & watching frontend tests

- Start watcher: `yarn jest`
- Jest will run all test files that end with the name ".test.ts"

#### Backend
```bash
# Run Golang tests using sqlite3 as database (default)
go test ./pkg/...

# Run Golang tests using mysql as database - convenient to use /docker/blocks/mysql_tests
GRAFANA_TEST_DB=mysql go test ./pkg/...

# Run Golang tests using postgres as database - convenient to use /docker/blocks/postgres_tests
GRAFANA_TEST_DB=postgres go test ./pkg/...
```

### Datasource and dashboard provisioning

[Here](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/tree/master/devenv) you can find helpful scripts and docker-compose setup
that will populate your dev environment for quicker testing end experimenting.

## Contribute

If you have any ideas for improvement or have found a bug, do not hesitate to open an issue.
And if you have time, clone this repo and submit a pull request to help me make Grafana
the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!

Read the [contributing](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) guide then check the [`beginner friendly`](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22beginner+friendly%22) label to find issues that are easy and that we would like help with.

## Plugin development

Checkout the [Plugin Development Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/developing/development/) and checkout the [PLUGIN_DEV.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/PLUGIN_DEV.md) file for changes in Grafana that relate to
plugin development.

## License

Grafana is distributed under [Apache 2.0 License](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE).