Grafana

The technical documentation of the grafana microservice, which is a web application that provides visualization and analytics capabilities.

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Kubernetes resources

Deployment: united-manufacturing-hub-grafana
Service:
- External LoadBalancer: united-manufacturing-hub-grafana at port 8080
ConfigMap: united-manufacturing-hub-grafana
Secret: grafana-secret
PersistentVolumeClaim: united-manufacturing-hub-grafana

Grafana is configured through its user interface. The default credentials are found in the grafana-secret Secret.

The Grafana installation that is provided by the United Manufacturing Hub is shipped with a set of preinstalled plugins:

Environment variables
Variable name	Description	Type	Allowed values	Default
`FACTORYINSIGHT_APIKEY`	The API key to use to authenticate to the Factoryinsight API	string	Any	Base64 encoded string
`FACTORYINSIGHT_BASEURL`	The base URL of the Factoryinsight API	string	Any	united-manufacturing-hub-factoryinsight-service
`FACTORYINSIGHT_CUSTOMERID`	The customer ID to use to authenticate to the Factoryinsight API	string	Any	factoryinsight
`FACTORYINSIGHT_PASSWORD`	The password to use to authenticate to the Factoryinsight API	string	Any	Random UUID
`GF_PATHS_DATA`	The path where Grafana will store its data	string	Any	/var/lib/grafana/data
`GF_PATHS_LOGS`	The path where Grafana will store its logs	string	Any	/var/log/grafana
`GF_PATHS_PLUGINS`	The path where Grafana will store its plugins	string	Any	/var/lib/grafana/plugins
`GF_PATHS_PROVISIONING`	The path where Grafana will store its provisioning configuration	string	Any	/etc/grafana/provisioning
`GF_PLUGINS_ALLOW_LOADING_UNSIGNED_PLUGINS`	List of plugin identifiers to allow loading even if they lack a valid signature	string	Comma separated list	umh-datasource,umh-factoryinput-panel,umh-v2-datasource
`GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	The password of the admin user	string	Any	Random UUID
`GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER`	The username of the admin user	string	Any	admin