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Integrating Grafana with CloudRadial UCP

Ricky Cecchini
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For more flexible data visualization, you can plug in a dashboard from any source that allows for publicly embeddable widgets. One such example is Grafana, which can be incredibly powerful.

Below, we'll cover how to enter these into CloudRadial.

Preparing Grafana Dashboards for a Publicly Sharable URL

Once you create your dashboard to your liking in Grafana, you can:

  1. Select the Share option at the top of the dashboard
  2. Navigate to the Snapshot tab and fill out the relevant info
    • Name the snapshot whatever you wish. The default is to keep the same name as the dashboard
    • Set the expiration to Never
    • Set the timeout to 4 seconds (can be longer depending on the amount of data)
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  3. Select Publish to snapshot.raintank.io
  4. Copy the link produced by Grafana

If you're just starting to set up your dashboard, please visit this article that covers general setup best practices for third-party dashboards.

For the sake of brevity, we'll cover how to add a local dashboard for just one client:

  1. Navigate to Account > Dashboards
  2. Click + Add Dashboard at the top right
  3. Set the Title, Description, Display Order (optional) and Icon, then save
  4. Select the new dashboard from the top nav bar
  5. Click + Add Widget and choose the HTML widget
  6. (Optional) Add more widgets and drag them into their preferred positions. You can also extend or shrink them by dragging their corners
  7. Use the three-dot menu on the HTML widget and select Settingsmceclip0.png
  8. In the Content editor, select the </> (code view) button
  9. Enter the HTML code to embed Grafana, using the raintank.io source. Below is a sample code:
    <p>
    <iframe width="100%" height="750" src="https://snapshot.raintank.io/YourLinkHere" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>
    </p>
  10. Select the </> button again to leave code view
  11. Select Save to finalize the widget

Your Grafana dashboard will now show within CloudRadial.

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