Grafana Image Renderer Issue
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What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
Grafana Version 12.1.1 on Ubuntu 24.04.3 server
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What are you trying to achieve?
To be able to get pdf documents with images of the grafana panels I have created
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How are you trying to achieve it?
By using Grafana Image Renderer Version 4.1.5 to render images and Grafana Reporter to create the pdfs in a report structure.
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What happened?
I am unable to render the images and get this as a result:
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What did you expect to happen?
To get a pdf file with images of the panels in the dashboard
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Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
This is what i got as an error in the logs:
logger=rendering t=2025-11-04T08:08:03.713196133Z level=warn msg=“Could not render image, no image renderer found/installed. For image rendering support please install the grafana-image-renderer plugin. Read more at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/image_rendering/”
(I saw on github that there were a couple of closed issues where the problem was that the grafana-image-renderer folder was not owned by grafana, but instead by root. However, that is not the case here)
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Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
I installed the grafana image renderer plugin with the command
→ grafana-cli plugins install grafana-image-renderer
And i installed the grafana reporter plugin with the help of this video:
