Grafana Data Exporter App

Grafana plugin for exporting data from Grafana panels as CSV.

Supported datasources:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Prerequisites

• Grafana 9.0.0+
• Grafana Data Exporter
• set Grafana app_mode as development:
  • find the configuration file: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#configuration-file-location
  • change app_mode = production to app_mode = development
  • restart Grafana

Plugin installation

The easiest way to install plugins is by using the grafana-cli tool which is bundled with Grafana. See Using grafana-cli paragraph.

If there is no grafana-cli tool in your system, plugins can be installed manually.

Table of contents

• Using grafana-cli
  • Install plugin
• Manual installation
• Docker installation

Using grafana-cli

Grafana docs about plugin installation: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/cli/#plugins-commands.

Install / update plugin

grafana-cli --pluginUrl "https://code.corpglory.net/attachments/89ae5865-2ae7-474c-a6f0-f29d19e6b1dd" plugins install corpglory-dataexporter-app
sudo systemctl restart grafana-server

Manual installation

• Navigate to Grafana plugins directory:

  • For Grafana installed from .deb/.rpm package:
    • /var/lib/grafana/plugins
  • For Grafana installed using Standalone Linux Binaries or source:
    • <GRAFANA_PATH>/data/plugins

• Download corpglory-dataexporter-app

wget http://code.corpglory.net/attachments/5f1c5e28-544b-416a-a425-7cdf49fa60ac -O corpglory-dataexporter-app.tar.gz

• Unpack downloaded files

tar -zxvf corpglory-dataexporter-app.tar.gz

• Restart Grafana
  • For Grafana installed from .deb/.rpm package:
    • systemctl restart grafana-server
  • For Grafana installed using Standalone Linux Binaries or source:
    • Stop any running instances of grafana-server
    • Start grafana-server: cd <GRAFANA_PATH> && ./bin/grafana-server

Docker installation

You can install Data Exporter App to Grafana in Docker passing it as the environment variable.

docker run \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=https://code.corpglory.net/attachments/89ae5865-2ae7-474c-a6f0-f29d19e6b1dd;corpglory-dataexporter-app" \
  grafana/grafana

Useful links

• Grafana docs about Docker installation: https://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#installing-plugins-from-other-sources

Plugin Configuration

• In Grafana, go to Configuration -> Plugins -> Data Exporter App
• Fill "DataExporter backend URL" field with the Data Exporter URL (Please note: the URL should be accessible by Grafana Server)
• Click Connect
• If Grafana connects to the Data Exporter successfully, you'll see this message: "Plugin is connected! You can now go to a dashboard and add the DataExporter panel there."
• After this:
  • go to a dashboard you'd like to export data from
  • click "Add panel"
  • select Data Exporter Panel

Support and Consulting

Commercial support, professional services or any help — send us your inquiry at ping@corpglory.com

About CorpGlory Inc.

Grafana Data Exporter is developed by CorpGlory Inc., a company which provides high quality software development, data visualization, Grafana and monitoring consulting.