Use Grafana with InfluxDB Cloud

Configure Grafana to use Flux

With Flux selected as the query language in your InfluxDB data source, configure your InfluxDB connection:

1. Under Connection, enter the following:

   • URL: Your InfluxDB URL.

     https://cloud2.influxdata.com
     

   • Organization: Your InfluxDB organization name or ID.

   • Token: Your InfluxDB API token.

   • Default Bucket: The default bucket to use in Flux queries.

   • Min time interval: The Grafana minimum time interval.

2. Click Save & Test. Grafana attempts to connect to the InfluxDB datasource and returns the results of the test.

Configure Grafana to use InfluxQL

To query InfluxDB Cloud from Grafana using InfluxQL:

1. Download and set up the influx CLI
2. Create an InfluxDB DBRP mapping
3. Configure your InfluxDB connection

Download and set up the influx CLI

1. Download the latest version of the influx CLI appropriate for your local operating system.

2. Create a CLI configuration that provides the required InfluxDB Cloud host, organization, and API token to all CLI commands. Use the influx config create command and provide the following:

   • InfluxDB Cloud URL
   • organization name (by default, your email address)
   • API token

   influx config create \
     --config-name example-config-name \
     --host-url https://cloud2.influxdata.com \
     --org example-org \
     --token My5uP3rSeCr37t0k3n
   

   For more information about influx CLI configurations, see influx config.

Create an InfluxDB DBRP mapping

When using InfluxQL to query InfluxDB Cloud, the query must specify a database and a retention policy. Use the influx v1 dbrp create command command to create a database/retention policy (DBRP) mapping that associates a database and retention policy combination with an InfluxDB Cloud bucket.

DBRP mappings do not affect the retention period of the target bucket. These mappings allow queries following InfluxDB 1.x conventions to successfully query InfluxDB Cloud buckets.

Provide the following:

• database name
• retention policy name (not retention period)
• bucket ID
• (optional) --default flag if you want the retention policy to be the default retention policy for the specified database

Examples

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db example-db \
  --rp example-rp \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X001 \
  --default

# Create telegraf/autogen DBRP mapping with autogen
# as the default RP for the telegraf DB

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db telegraf \
  --rp autogen \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X001 \
  --default

# Create telegraf/downsampled-daily DBRP mapping that
# writes to a different bucket

influx v1 dbrp create \
  --db telegraf \
  --rp downsampled-daily \
  --bucket-id 00xX00o0X002

For more information about DBRP mapping, see Database and retention policy mapping.

Configure your InfluxDB connection

With InfluxQL selected as the query language in your InfluxDB data source settings:

1. Under HTTP, enter the following:

   • URL: Your InfluxDB Cloud URL.

     https://cloud2.influxdata.com
     

   • Access: Server (default)

2. Under Custom HTTP Headers, select Add Header. Provide your InfluxDB Cloud API token:

   • Header: Enter Authorization

   • Value: Use the Token schema and provide your InfluxDB API token. For example:

     Token y0uR5uP3rSecr3tT0k3n
     

3. Under InfluxDB Details, do the following:

   • Database: Enter the database name mapped to your InfluxDB Cloud bucket
   • User: Leave empty
   • Password: Leave empty
   • HTTP Method: Select GET

4. Click Save & Test. Grafana attempts to connect to the InfluxDB Cloud data source and returns the results of the test.