[SOLVED] Setting up influx

[Andrew_Rowe]

Trying to set up influx and grafana using apt-get on a PC with Debian 9 running 2.4 stable

install influx
open web browser to localhost:8083
create database, users and grant permissions per Thom’s tutorial
install grafana
open web browser to localhost:3000
configure source per Thom’s tutorial
Paper UI - Binding - Persistence > install influxDB
create file influxdb.cfg in /services
create file influxdb.persist in /persistence

I’ve been trying to follow this tutorial but it is a little old but lots of good information

InfluxDB+Grafana persistence and graphing

Store your openHAB item states in an InfluxDB time-series datastore and create highly customizable diagrams with Grafana. These diagrams can in return be included in your sitemap as images. [image] Following this guide, you will install InfluxDB and Grafana, make openHAB store data in an InfluxDB database, make Grafana fetch data from the InfluxDB database and draw diagrams. Finally you can include these diagrams in your openHAB sitemap. Table of Content Starting Point InfluxDB Installation…

This thread also has a more recent attempt but on Pi

Searching for help with grafana with openhabian

so far: sudo openhabian-config. go to #24, install influxdb+grafana (it will tell to go to this post: InfluxDB+Grafana persistence and graphing ) its asking me to install locally or use existing instance. no idea what to pick so i try the first one. Install locally. enter passwords for a few times. I enter all the same password for each of them. Shall influxDB be configured with Openhab? I select Yes downloading… Operation Succesful! OK. If this is all correct, how can we add this into…

Checked out the docs here

InfluxDB (0.9 and newer) - Persistence Services

[jswim788 (John Schmitz)]

Do you have an error or problem? Anything wrong in /var/log/syslog or the openhab log?

[Andrew_Rowe]

No thank you John, I have obtained charting wonderfulness