Hi, I want to migrate a grafana installation (v 5.3.4) to a new server. Is there a guide\docs or best practices to move grafana (without losing data,plugins, configurations, dashboard, datasource, …) from an old server to a newer? Old Server OS: Ubuntu 16.04 New Server OS: Debian 9.6.0 Thanks ! …

I didn’t find any good doc about it. I only find this: http://docs.grafana.org/installation/upgrading/#database-backup Maybe this topic might help you: https://community.grafana.com/t/backup-restore-grafana-server/121 If it does not work let us know again.

Hi, it works. Step: Install new instance of Grafana Install used plugin on new server Stop Grafana service on source and destination server Copy /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db from old to new server Check /etc/grafana/grafana.ini Restart Grafana Regular connection to the grafana url Dashboard, da…

Just wanted to say that it’s still working in 2021 with grafana 8.x!

I can confirm. Just upgrade from 7.3.3 to 8.0.1 without issues this way!

Hi, What about Grafana license.Will it work ?

Er, what licence? Grafana is licensed under GNU AGPL 3. grafana/grafana/blob/main/LICENSE GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permi…

Hi, I am using Grafana Enterprise.i want to move my grafana from current environment to a different Environment. i just want to know the the license will work or not?

Still works in version 9.2.0 My workflow: sudo systemctl stop grafana-server.service sudo chown --reference=/var/lib/grafana/grafana.db grafana.db sudo cp grafana.db /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db sudo systemctl restart grafana-server.service don’t forget: sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.se…

My workflow for Grafana 9.2.2 (a little more detailed): In a terminal: docker inspect grafana_old_container_name | grep Source If you cannot use grep just use docker inspect grafana_old_container_name and search for the line Source Go to the Source folder and copy all files and folders except pu…

How to Move/Migrate Grafana to a newer version/system on a local/container environment

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mcont January 25, 2019, 12:57pm 4

ok. thx.
I will carry out the migration and give feedback.

bye

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