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Upgrading to Grafana Vs. 7.0 or newer

Good day. Would it be possible for Grafana to be upgraded to Version 7 within the venus-docker-grafana container?

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Scott Bender answered ·

I've built a new image with 7.0.4, but I have not made it the default yet. If you would like to try it out, please modify the docker-compose.yaml file that you downloaded.


Change "image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana:latest" to "image: "victronenergy/venus-docker-grafana:2.0.0"


Please let me know how it goes.

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mrft avatar image mrft commented ·

Thanks Scott. I will try it and give you feedback.

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mrft avatar image mrft commented ·

Thanks Scott. It's working great.

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warren-b avatar image warren-b commented ·

Any idea as to why, when I update the .yaml file to pull 2.0.0, I can't save any changes to the default dashboard?

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insanesplash answered ·

I decided to remove the Influxdb and Grafana containers from the Victron Venus docker image and run the tools locally on the host. This way I can use them for multiple projects and keep them updated without affecting the Victron Venus image provided. (I also disabled UPNP and manually added my Venus GX)

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Ulrich avatar image Ulrich commented ·

I also installed Grafana and InfluxDB as a standalone service on the host. However, I haven't finished the last part yet.

Can you please give me a hint as to where the CONF file can be found and with which tools it is done?

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billknny answered ·

Just to bump this back up again. My understanding is that Grafana 7.4 added the ability to have a graph with more than 2 y-axis. This would be a HUGE capability addition.

If a Version 7.4 or later could be added that would be huge...

By the way the 7.04 version works fine...

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented ·

Hi Bill, thanks for the reminder. At the moment we have no one on our staff available to take care of this. Pull Requests very welcome!

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Hey all, good news: we published new versions to Docker just now, having Grafana 7.5.1.

This new version of Grafana adds a feature to transform data before showing it, as well as other improvements.

See here for the change log: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md. And I'm sure Grafana also wrote some nice blog posts explaining their new features.

The version of influx hasn't changed, its still 1.7.

Note that I don't know how to update Grafana while keeping your data (which is in influx). I'm sure there are ways though.

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Ulrich avatar image Ulrich commented ·

Thanks a lot for this.

InfluxDB backup and restore can be done via the command line.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/administration/backup_and_restore/

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billknny avatar image billknny commented ·

This is great! Thank you!

I have Grafana/Influx/Docker on a R-pi running alongside my CerbeGX. Originally, I had planned on it as a backup to VRM to show time series data during those times when our sailboat is unconnected to the internet, but it has proven so flexible, it's now my go-to tool for monitoring my system.

This update will make it even better!

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warren-b avatar image warren-b commented ·

@mvader (Victron Energy), thanks for the update! I have two questions:

  • Will the version of influxdb be updated to 1.8 or later in the near future? Being able to use the new Flux language and queries would be great.
  • Are the correct files uploaded to the Docker hub for the latest version of Grafana for the armhf architecture? I am new to docker, so I might be missing something, but it looks like both the armhf- 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 tags are actually in linux/amd64 architecture.

Thanks!

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