COG - Grafana

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Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture.

Support

For bug reports, feature requests, or general questions, please contact us.

Directions

  1. Launch AMI from the Amazon Marketplace
  2. Open a Web browser and type the public DNS name provided by Amazon into the URL bar.
  3. A random password will be generated and placed in /home/ec2-user/grafana_pass.
  4. SSH into your instance as the ec2-user user and run "cat grafana_pass".
  5. Login to the admin section with the default user "admin" and the passowrd from above.
  6. See the Getting Started Guide to get started creating dashboards.

Enable SSL/HTTP2

The easiest way to enable SSL/TLS is to attach you instance to an AWS Application Load Balancer with an Amazon Certificate Manager certificate attached to that.

You can also create your own certificate via the free Let's Encrypt project (See: Using LetsEncrypt for free certs)

Configure local Email sending

COG images come with SSMTP (a send-only sendmail emulator) installed.

To configure SSMTP to send via Gmail, you will have to edit its configuration file and enter your account settings:

#### /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

## The user that gets all the mails (UID < 1000, usually the admin)
root=username@gmail.com

## The mail server (where the mail is sent to), both port 465 or 587 should be acceptable
## See also http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

## The address where the mail appears to come from for user authentication.
rewriteDomain=gmail.com

## The full hostname
hostname=gmail.com

## Use SSL/TLS before starting negotiation
UseTLS=Yes
UseSTARTTLS=Yes

## Username/Password
AuthUser=username@gmail.com
AuthPass=password

## Email 'From header's can override the default domain?
FromLineOverride=yes