Plugins Backend Start Failure in Grafana on Cloud Run with GCS as Persistent Storage

Grafana Installation
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    Grafana v11.5.2

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Migrate Grafana from VM instance to Cloud Run

  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    Created a persistent storage for Grafana with Google storage bucket and mounted the volume to /var/lib/grafana and host the service in Google Cloud Run

  • What happened?
    Plugins are not starting

  • What did you expect to happen?
    Create dashboards with the plugins

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

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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.
    In the UI getting - failedBackendstart error
    In the logs getting following error
    For every plugin I try to use, I encounter the following error in the logs:
    logger=plugins.backend.start t=2025-03-10T10:39:45.110576533Z level=error
    msg=“Could not start plugin backend” pluginId=grafana-googlesheets-datasource
    error=“fork/exec /var/lib/grafana/plugins/grafana-googlesheets-datasource/gpx_sheets_linux_amd64: permission denied”

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

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Can someone pls check this

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I want to add a note: When running the Docker container locally with persistent storage, the issue does not occur, and the plugins start normally. However, the issue arises only when using persistent storage in GCS on Cloud Run.

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That’s because GC has different fs permissions /ownerships.