Can not connect to external data source

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can not connect to external data source
error : Query failed. Please inspect Grafana server log for details

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  1. Which version of Grafana are you using?

  2. Which external data source are you trying to connect to?

  3. What connection parameters have you set up for this data source?

  4. What does the Grafana server log tell you about the failure to connect?

  5. Can you make a manual connection from the Grafana server to the data
    source?

  6. Any other information which might be useful for us to understand your
    setup?

Antony.

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  1. Which version of Grafana are you using?
    Version 6.4.3

  2. Which external data source are you trying to connect to?
    My SQL

  3. What connection parameters have you set up for this data source?
    Host : IP:port
    Database : my database name
    User : my database username
    Password : my database password

  4. What does the Grafana server log tell you about the failure to connect?
    Query failed. Please inspect Grafana server log for details

  5. Can you make a manual connection from the Grafana server to the data
    source?

  6. Any other information which might be useful for us to understand your
    setup

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  1. What connection parameters have you set up for this data source?
    Host : IP:port
    Database : my database name
    User : my database username
    Password : my database password
  1. Can you make a manual connection from the Grafana server to that data
    source?

(Telnet 3306 if you don’t have the MySQL client installed)

  1. What does the Grafana server log tell you about the failure to connect?
    Query failed. Please inspect Grafana server log for details

You mean the Grafana server log tells you to look at the Grafana server log
for more details?

Which log file are you looking at to see this?

Antony.

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My question, how to connect external data source with MySQL.

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Hello ! I’m in the same situation. Did you get a solution ?
Thx
Daisy.

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Welcome @daisychain

Has the grafana user been given proper permissions on the mysql server?