AWS iam instance profiles

Grafana Installation
#1

Hi,

im trying to build an fargate grafana environment but having some problems getting grafana to talk to cloudwatch.

the documentation doesnt seem particularly clear, so figured i’d ask - can grafana authenticate using an IAM instance profile, so i dont need to mess about with access keys etc ?

i believe i have configured the instance profile correctly, however am getting the following message

lvl=eror msg="Metric request error" logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin error="NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.\n\tFor verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors"
#2

Resolved - grafana does support use of an IAM role in fargate.

Example cloudformation here: https://github.com/mark-vandenbos/grafana-fargate

Gotcha’s that i found were ensuring that an instance profile gets created with your role, and (if you use a proxy) excluding the tasks metadata service from the proxy settings.