Settings do not change

datadb · April 16, 2020, 2:16pm

I want to set
allow_embedding = true
Then I restart my server with
sudo reboot
Then i check the settings in grafana, but they did not change. Can Somebody help me ?

emiltullstedt · April 16, 2020, 3:13pm

Sure thing, can you reply to these three questions?

What OS are you running? (Ubuntu? MacOS? Debian? Fedora? Red Hat? FreeBSD? Windows? [probably not since you mentioned sudo reboot])
How did you install Grafana? (Package? Docker? Did you follow a specific guide?)
Which configuration file are you editing?

datadb · April 16, 2020, 7:30pm

@emiltullstedt

Raspbian Buster Lite
https://simonhearne.com/2020/pi-influx-grafana
/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

emiltullstedt · April 17, 2020, 9:09am

Ok, that seems to be the correct configuration file and the installation instruction seems correct.

Are you sure you’re editing allow_embedding under the [security] subsection?

By the way, if you want to just restart Grafana, you can do so by writing sudo systemctl restart grafana-server, you don’t have to restart the server itself

datadb · April 17, 2020, 12:18pm

Yes
/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

systemctl restart grafana-server

Grafana

emiltullstedt · April 17, 2020, 1:10pm

Ah, thanks for the screenshots.

You’ll want to remove the ; at the very start of the line. It tells the configuration to ignore that line. I’ve seen this happen before, we should really make that much clearer.

datadb · April 17, 2020, 12:46pm

Thanks that worked. Now I have the problem that if I want to embed a panel. Then the login page appears on the website and not the panel.

emiltullstedt · April 17, 2020, 12:56pm

I’m not confident in this, because I’ve never tried this, but you might have to set the cookie-samesite option to none for iframes to work. See the security.cookie-samesite documentation and this post on SameSite Cookie Recipes for some background.

datadb · April 17, 2020, 12:59pm

I logged in one time. Now it runs, even if I refresh the page

emiltullstedt · April 17, 2020, 12:59pm

Nice!

datadb · April 17, 2020, 1:11pm

But if load the website on a other device, I have to log in again…

pooh · April 17, 2020, 1:26pm

Yes. If you connect from another device, how would Grafana know it is the
same “you” until you’ve given it your username & password?

Antony.

datadb · April 17, 2020, 1:29pm

Is it possible that i don’t have to log in and everyone can see the panel?

emiltullstedt · April 17, 2020, 2:23pm

Yes, you can allow anonymous authentication, see

gaurav9165 · February 23, 2021, 9:20am

I’m not able to see the contents of grafana.ini. Using vi etc/grafana/grafana.ini command on Ubuntu. Could you pls help?

pooh · February 23, 2021, 9:47am

Please give more information - instead of just “I’m not able to…” tell us
what happens when you try.
It could be something as simple as missing a leading / on the pathname.
Depending on where you were when you ran that vi command, it will be looking
for ‘etc’ in the local directory, and that may not exist.
Show us what the output of “ls -l /etc/grafana” is.

Thanks,

Antony.

gaurav9165 · February 23, 2021, 9:55am

Thanks for replying.
Actually I want to render my charts in html for that I need to set allow_embedding=true; but when I make these changes into the grafana.ini file it did not changed in the grafana console and also I’m getting an error. Attaching screenshots below for better understanding.
Thanks