Grafana on Raspberry Pi 4

Grafana Installation
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I’m looking for a version of Grafana for the new Raspberry PI 4.
They have changed the CPU to a Broadcom BCM2711B0 quad-core A72 (ARMv8-A). Rpi 3 was using a Broadcom BCM2837B0 quad-core A53 (ARMv8).
I have tried to install the https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.3.3_armhf.deb that is working for a Rpi3B+, but it seems not to be working on a Pi4…

After install I get
● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-08-22 07:54:52 CEST; 7h ago
Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
Process: 6837 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=${CONF_FILE} --pidfile=${PID_FILE_DIR}/grafana-server.pid --packaging=deb cfg:default.paths.logs=${LOG_DIR} cfg:default.paths.data=${DATA_DIR} cfg:default.
Main PID: 6837 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.
lines 1-8/8 (END)

When asking for the status of the service.
The outcome is simular when running the wrong dist on a pi zero. Is it nessasary to get another dist. from Rpi 4 as well, or should the one I tested work on a pi4?

Best regards
Ola

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Hi Ola,

The release you linked to is built for ARMv7 (32 bit) (link), which may be why it’s not working on your Raspberry Pi 4, ARMv8 (64 bit).

I don’t have the hardware to verify it, but have you tried the ARM64 release?
https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.3.3_arm64.deb

Let me know how it goes!

Marcus

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Hi Marcus,

Thanks for youre reply. I did just test with the arm64 package, and unfortunately it didn’t work.
The result I got is the folowing:

pi@Raspberry4:~ $ sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.3.3_arm64.deb
dpkg: error processing archive grafana_6.3.3_arm64.deb (–install):
package architecture (arm64) does not match system (armhf)
Errors were encountered while processing:
grafana_6.3.3_arm64.deb

Best regards
Ola

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Put the armhf version back, then look in /var/log/grafana.log and see if there is anything there when you try to start it. If not then look in /var/log/syslog.

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Thanks clanlaw!

I don’t know what when wrong the first time. Now it works fine!

If anyone is looking for how I did it, here are the commands:
–Update your apt source
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.3.3_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.3.3_armhf.deb
–Update available packages and Install Grafana
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt --fix-broken install
–Start the server
sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server
sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server
sudo update-rc.d grafana-server defaults

Best regards

Ola

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I’m glad it worked out for you! Thanks for sharing your solution!

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I don’t believe that is required is it? All that is handled by systemd now. Certainly I have not done that for years.
You don’t need the /bin/ on the front of systemctl either.