Hi I lost my admin password, I tried to reset it as shown in FAQ sudo grafana-cli --homepath “/usr/share/grafana/” admin reset-admin-password newpass returns : Incorrect Usage. flag provided but not defined: -homepath could you help me thanks

The correct way to reset the admin password is through the use of grafana-cli as many posters here are suggesting. This thread includes mentions of the --homepath argument to override the home path value. If you use the --homepath flag, as a global option it needs to come first. A full correct e…

Copy/paste the command you entered and the result please. Hide the password obviously. Put it between lines containing three backticks so the format is not mangled by the forum s/w.

Use the following command, the password will be admin, just run the command and restart the grafana service, hope this helps. Command: grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password admin

$ sudo grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password admin Grafana-server Init Failed: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or working directory is homepath doesn’t work :frowning:

any idea ? :slight_smile: thanks

This might help https://ahelpme.com/software/grafana/reset-lost-admin-password-of-grafana-server-centos-7/

thanks a lot I tried with sqlite method, it works !!

I use the root user on centos, and i do it on the folder it comes as default, i dont change any directories, and that worked for me 2 times already, but its good that you finally figured it out, sorry for the late response

For everyone that came here by a google search just like I did. The problem is the order of the command line arguments. When you use the command like described in the documentation , it failes: grafana-cli --homepath "c:\Program Files\grafana" admin reset-admin-password mynewpassword Incorrect Usa…

In WINDOWS 10 Open a console in administrator mode and go to the file folder grafana-cli.exe cd C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\bin run this command grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password mynewpassword C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\bin>grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password myne…

This solved the reset in Ubuntu Reset admin password [image] Grafana CLI Guide to using grafana-cli grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password <new password> resets the password for the admin user using the CLI. You might need to do this if you lose the admin passw…

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dureiken July 20, 2019, 11:24am 5

any idea ? thanks

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