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Grafana Docker

Hi all,

I got the docker containers up and running thanks to the following posts:

Excellent Post on how to install on Raspberry Pi

To get it to work on a 64Bit Image of Raspberry PI 4 I had to use the following image:

image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-server:armhf-latest"


I noticed it still run's Grafana version:

Grafana v6.1.6


I would like to upgrade the Grafana version to latest so I can use the newer features and plugins.

Questions:

1. Has anyone done an in place upgrade of Grafana in the docker image? I have tried using the normal Grafana upgrade methods within the docker image but haven't had success.

The normal processes I have used to try upgrade.

Upgrade Grafana wiki

Would be interesting if anyone has done an inplace upgrade and how you did it.

2. I have had a look at all the docker containers available for "victronenergy/venus-docker-server" here: Docker Images

Wasnt sure which one is the latests to use for Raspberry PI (64bit)



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nickdb answered ·

The latest container which I pulled directly off docker hub is 2 months old and has grafana 7.5.1 though this is the amd64 variant which I run within rosetta on a mac.

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myvicrocks avatar image myvicrocks commented ·

It does seem that the amd64 image has the most recent one. What I find weird is I have updated grafana in the docker image by SSH into the container I mean if I do (this is in the container):

$ grafana-cli --version
$ grafana cli version 9.4.7


And if I check the service status, says grafana is running. Have rebooted the container to.

However every time I go to the Grafana front end I get version 6.1.6

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nickdb avatar image nickdb ♦♦ myvicrocks commented ·
That just looks like the CLI.

Grafana is installed on the grafana container not the server container.

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myvicrocks avatar image myvicrocks nickdb ♦♦ commented ·

Yes thats clear I terminal into the Grafana container to do the upgrade not the others:

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And the version in the interface:

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Hey we’re working on quite a big upgrade of that docker-based solution.


Few more weeks and then we’ll be done I expect.


in this PR you can preview current state


https://github.com/victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana-images/pull/22/commits">https://github.com/victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana-images/pull/22/commits

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myvicrocks avatar image myvicrocks commented ·

@mvader (Victron Energy) fantastic :) thank you if you need beta testers let me know.


Quick questions:

1. Which grafana and influx versions you going to implement? influx 2.x would allow some significant capabilities in terms of queries that can be done across measurements. At the same time I understand the effort needed to upgrade from 1.7 hence the question. Grafana is currently 9.x and has significant graphing enhancements.


2. Will there be a Raspberry PI 4 (32&64bit) image available? E.g. making the compose file platform independant? Reason I ask running Windows docker is fantastic but I think it's more functional to be able to run it on a headless Raspberry PI that you can install and run headless.

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nickdb avatar image nickdb ♦♦ commented ·
Great, thanks. Pretty please make it arm friendly for Apple silicon.
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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ nickdb ♦♦ commented ·
hi both, we'll start with finishing the project as defined now; and who knows some of your requests are in it already: I don't know :).
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Michał Kata avatar image Michał Kata commented ·

Hi I ve done my first grafana project, it works fine but I can only display consumption, pv production od each phase separately, how to display one measurment for 3 phase system ? The formula NumberOfPhases dosn't work or I 'm doing some mistake


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hominidae avatar image hominidae Michał Kata commented ·
..use a transformation, as shown in your other thread
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Philip answered ·

Currently all the system of "Venus Grafana docker server" is based on Influxdb version 1.7. I think it's a 32-bit database with a limit of 4GB of files size (I might be wrong). Thats why retention policy 30 day seems working but I'd prefer a longer 30 years(!) policy.
Am I right that this would require to move to InfluxDB 2 wich is 64-bit and can have a much bigger database ?
Is it possible to have the current Venus-docker server work with InfluxDB version 2.x (another influx database out of the build one into venus-docker) ?

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