Can't connect to influxdb

[thegabeman]

Was trying to setup Grafana with Influxdb in a docker environment. Installed both with the “latest” tag. Both are accessible through their webgui. But when configuring Grafana to connect to influxdb, it just doesn’t want to connect. I got the following errors:
“Get “http://192.168.0.13:8086/query?db=hadb&epoch=ms&q=SHOW+measurements”: dial tcp 192.168.0.13:8086: i/o timeout error performing influxQL query”

In all guides I find online, I see that in the HTTP section there is a field “Acces” with setting “Server (default)”, but in my version of grafana I don’t have that field.

Eventually I have been able to solve this after finding a youtube video with github link to a docker compose file that forces the grafana version to grafana/grafana-oss:8.4.3 and influxdb:2.1.1. This combination worked right away and does have the “Access” field in the influxdb connection.

So I now do have a working config, but afraid to upgrade and still not sure why this works and the “latest” config wouldn’t.

Anyone have some insight on this? Is it correct that in the latest grafana the “access” field is no longer visible?

[bineliasmrb]

Hi thegabeman and for future who will face this issue,

There is a timeout error because http_timeout request to Influxdb has exceeded.

In order to fix this in my case where I try to connect Grafana to my influxdb in GCE, I used Internal IP of my instance: http://10.148.0.35:8086 in your HTTP rule. Don’t use external IP.

Hope this will help you whoever stumble upon this issue.

Best regards,
rayan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrbbe

[apoly1]

Hi I am also having an issue connecting with InfluxDB in a docker environment, however I have a different error popping up. Would you have any idea what could help?