Need help configuring Grafana plugin for OCI

Grafana Configuration
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Hello Everyone,

I am looking for some help with configuring grafana to display OCI metrics. I am following the instructions from https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/SDKDocs/grafana.htm

I am doing a setup on a local host (Outside of OCI), So as instructed created a user “monitor_oci” in OCI with privileges to monitor my cloud resources in my tenancy.

I have grafana working on the localhost (running OEL 6) configured to use prometheus as Default datasource. Installed the oci plugin. Installed it as root.

I have created a user “oci_monitor” on my localhost and set up OCI CLI, and configured it to use the “monitor_oci” user in the tenancy. I am able to make calls using OCICLI

When trying to create the Datasource. I am getting a message "Data source is not working
" .

I have two queries here:

  1. Which user should be able to make OCI calls using OCI CLI? as OCI is getting installed on /home/oci_monitor/bin only oci_monitor is able to run it. Grafana is running as user grafana.

  2. Can I get a more detailed log of what is failing when grafana is trying add the data source?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!
Bapi

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Hi,

To anyone facing the same issue, User grafana needs to able to connect to oci using oci-cli, It accesses the config from

[root@mycb grafana]# pwd
/usr/share/grafana

[root@mycb grafana]# ls -latr
.
.
drwxr-xr-x.  2 grafana grafana   73 May 20 03:05 .oci
drwxr-xr-x.  2 grafana grafana   73 May 20 03:06 .oraclebmc

Place valid config file in them and the api keys and retry to add data source.

Also, log is in /var/log/grafana/grafana.log

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hi @bapiraju : Does user grafana need to have oci-cli command execution capabilities? Currently grafana user is just a service account. Also I did all the steps as above, but still facing the following error:

t=2022-06-15T17:44:24+0000 lvl=eror msg=“Metric request error” logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin error=“rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error with client(common.composingConfigurationProvider) {\n Providers: ([]common.ConfigurationProvider) (len=3 cap=3) {\n (common.fileConfigurationProvider) Configuration provided by file: /usr/share/grafana/.oci/config,\n (common.fileConfigurationProvider) Configuration provided by file: /usr/share/grafana/.oraclebmc/config,\n (common.environmentConfigurationProvider) Configuration provided by environment variables prefixed with: TF_VAR\n }\n}\ncan not create client, bad configuration: did not find a proper configuration for private key”