Installed plugin does not appear in console plugin list

Grafana Configuration
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I installed the simple react panel (GitHub - grafana/grafana-starter-panel: A starter for Grafana panel plugins) and it does not appear in the plugin list on the Grafana console after restarting grafana-server.

Prior to this I installed Node.js (v12.18.3), yarn (v1.22.4), and node-sass (4.14.1), copied the folder simple-react-panel-master into the default plugin directory /var/lib/grafana/plugins, and specified the default directory in the config file grafana.ini under [paths].

Inside folder ‘/var/lib/grafana/plugins/simple-react-panel-master’ I did the commands ‘yarn install’ and ‘yarn build’:

[root@ip-10-56-248-220 20200810 21:16:11 simple-react-panel-master]# yarn instal l
yarn install v1.22.4
[1/5] Validating package.json…
[2/5] Resolving packages…
[3/5] Fetching packages…
info fsevents@1.2.13: The platform “linux” is incompatible with this module.
info “fsevents@1.2.13” is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
info fsevents@2.1.3: The platform “linux” is incompatible with this module.
info “fsevents@2.1.3” is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[4/5] Linking dependencies…
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/eslint-config@1.0.0-rc1” has incorrect peer dependency “eslint-plugin-jsdoc@^21.0.0”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > storybook-dark-mode@0.4.0” has unmet p eer dependency “@storybook/api@>= 5.x”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > storybook-dark-mode@0.4.0” has unmet p eer dependency “@storybook/addons@>= 5.x”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > storybook-dark-mode@0.4.0” has unmet p eer dependency “@storybook/components@>= 5.x”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > storybook-dark-mode@0.4.0” has unmet p eer dependency “@storybook/core-events@>= 5.x”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > storybook-dark-mode@0.4.0” has unmet p eer dependency “@storybook/theming@>= 5.x”.
warning “@grafana/toolkit > @grafana/ui > @grafana/slate-react > slate-react-pla ceholder@0.2.9” has unmet peer dependency “slate-react@>=0.22.0”.
[5/5] Building fresh packages…
Done in 79.41s.
[root@ip-10-56-248-220 20200810 21:19:53 simple-react-panel-master]# yarn build
yarn run v1.22.4
$ grafana-toolkit plugin:build
:heavy_check_mark: Preparing
:heavy_check_mark: Linting
PASS src/module.test.tsTest Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
Tests: 1 passed, 1 total
Snapshots: 0 total
Time: 1.331s
Ran all test suites with tests matching “”.
:heavy_check_mark: Running tests
⠋ Compiling… Starting type checking service…
Using 1 worker with 2048MB memory limit
⠸ Compiling…
Hash: cba09ca1544c407ef036
Version: webpack 4.41.5
Time: 7835ms
Built at: 08/10/2020 9:20:38 PM
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
LICENSE 11.1 KiB [emitted]
README.md 2.04 KiB [emitted]
img/logo.svg 1.55 KiB [emitted]
module.js 3.41 KiB 0 [emitted] module
module.js.LICENSE.txt 808 bytes [emitted]
module.js.map 20 KiB 0 [emitted] [dev] module
plugin.json 696 bytes [emitted]
Entrypoint module = module.js module.js.map
[0] external “react” 42 bytes {0} [built]
[1] external “emotion” 42 bytes {0} [built]
[2] external “@grafana/ui” 42 bytes {0} [built]
[3] external “@grafana/data” 42 bytes {0} [built]
[4] ./module.ts + 2 modules 13.2 KiB {0} [built]
| ./module.ts 868 bytes [built]
| ./SimplePanel.tsx 2.34 KiB [built]
| …/node_modules/tslib/tslib.es6.js 10 KiB [built]:heavy_check_mark: Compiling…
Done in 12.77s.

Then I restarted grafana-server and verified from the Grafana log that the plugin was registered :

t=2020-08-10T21:21:41+0000 lvl=info msg=“Shutdown started” logger=server reason=“System signal: terminated”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:41+0000 lvl=info msg=“Stopped Stream Manager”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting Grafana” logger=server version=7.1.0 commit=8101355285 branch=HEAD compiled=2020-07-16T11:04:17+0000
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=/usr/share/grafana/conf/defaults.ini
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overridden from command line” logger=settings arg=“default.paths.data=/var/lib/grafana”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overridden from command line” logger=settings arg=“default.paths.logs=/var/log/grafana”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overridden from command line” logger=settings arg=“default.paths.plugins=/var/lib/grafana/plugins”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Config overridden from command line” logger=settings arg=“default.paths.provisioning=/etc/grafana/provisioning”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Home” logger=settings path=/usr/share/grafana
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Data” logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Logs” logger=settings path=/var/log/grafana
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Plugins” logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana/plugins
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Path Provisioning” logger=settings path=/etc/grafana/provisioning
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“App mode production” logger=settings
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Writing PID file” logger=server path=/var/run/grafana-server.pid pid=8552
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Connecting to DB” logger=sqlstore dbtype=mysql
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting DB migration” logger=migrator
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=“[Deprecation notice]” logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=“Fewer than 1% of Grafana installations use organizations, and we feel that most of those” logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=“users would have a better experience using Teams instead. As such, we are considering de-emphasizing” logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=“and eventually deprecating Organizations in a future Grafana release. If you would like to provide” logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=“feedback or describe your need, please do so in the issue linked below” logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=warn msg=Support for multiple organizations · Issue #24588 · grafana/grafana · GitHub logger=sqlstore
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Starting plugin search” logger=plugins
t=2020-08-10T21:21:42+0000 lvl=info msg=“Registering plugin” logger=plugins name=“Direct Input”
t=2020-08-10T21:21:43+0000 lvl=info msg=“HTTP Server Listen” logger=http.server address=0.0.0.0:3000 protocol=http subUrl= socket=

Also verified plugin was installed locally:
[root@ip-10-56-248-220 20200810 21:25:21 simple-react-panel-master]# grafana-> cli plugins ls

installed plugins:
myorgid-simple-panel @ 1.0.0
Restart grafana after installing plugins .

Then checked plugin list on console and the new plugin was not listed.

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Issue was resolved. Required setting ownership permission recursively to the installed plugin folders, as well as making sure all instances in system that were running Grafana used same configuration for console.

Commands:

chown -R grafana:grafana /var/lib/grafana/plugins
chmod -R 700 /var/lib/grafana/plugins

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“as well as making sure all instances in system that were running Grafana used same configuration for console.”
What is meant by this? I changed ownership permissions but still having this issue.

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Meaning, if you have multiple instances as part of cluster running Grafana, all instances should have same file permissions applied in order to see installed plugin on console.