Hi,
after migrating Grafana from 10.4.2 to 11.1.0 (in docker), the anonymous login does not work any more. The log shows
logger=authn.service t=2024-07-10T06:54:13.436700597Z level=warn msg=“Failed to authenticate request” client=auth.client.session error=“user token not found”
I’m using the open source version of Grafana.
Did you check your grafana.ini settings regarding anonymous login are still active after the migration?
Yes, I did:
[auth.anonymous]
enabled = true
;org_name = Main Org.
;org_role = Viewer
;hide_version = false
My ‘migration’ works like this: All grafana data (ini file, database etc.) are stored autside the container in a single directory, and when getting a new grafana version, I create a copy of that directory, and start the new version from that copy. This ensures that all settings are retained through the migration, and it worked very well in the past. Maybe for Grafana 11.1 some additional steps are required ?
Can you try uncommenting the org_name and org_role ?
tried it - same result:
[auth.anonymous]
enabled = true
org_name = Main Org.
org_role = Viewer
Getting again
logger=authn.service t=2024-07-10T11:32:50.676438762Z level=warn msg=“Failed to authenticate request” client=auth.client.session error=“user token not found”
is your org name “Main Org.” ?
Correction 1: The message
logger=authn.service t=2024-07-10T11:32:50.676438762Z level=warn msg=“Failed to authenticate request” client=auth.client.session error=“user token not found”
has probably nothing to do with the problem (which persists). I’m getting the message also on Grafana 10.4.2, where the anonymous login works as expected.
Correction 2:
I noticed, that although I set enabled = true for anonymous login, the setting is displayed as false in the Grafana GUI:
It looks like the parameter setting in grafana.ini is simply ignored in 11.1.0:
[auth.anonymous]
enabled = true
device_limit = 44
(I added the parameter device_limit = 44 only to ensure that I’m really editing the correct file)
did you restart grafana after these changes
yes - otherwise I’d not have seen the change on the device_limit which defaults to 0, and was changed by me to 44.
Oooops, this is embarrassing. You are completely right. The container was created with a few environment variables being set, and among them was
GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=false
which of course superseeded the setting in grafana.ini. Without it, it works as before. My bad - I simply forgot to check that
Thank you for your help.
