Variable definition through query - why does it seem to be a HTTP POST with time range rather than a GET with query?

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    8.3.3 in Ubuntu.

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Define a drop-down variable by querying metrics names. The query has wildcards. The result shall consists of thousands values.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

  • What happened?
    The NGINX log in the graphite server outputs the following:

{Grafana server IP} - - [04/Feb/2024:18:12:46 +0000] "POST /metrics/find?from=1706897504&until=1707070306 HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "Grafana/8.3.3"
  • What did you expect to happen?
    A query like this, which works locally from curl:
curl -k https://localhost:4040/metrics/find?query=a.*b*.c.d.*

this is how it looks in nginx log:

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Feb/2024:16:56:13 +0000] "GET /metrics/find?query=production.*catod*.catod.vpn_tunnels.* HTTP/1.1" 200 334349 "-" "curl/7.68.0"
  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    I’m not sure it’s a specific configuration, at least I’m not aware of one. I’m not familiar with Grafana configurations (the *.ini file). We use default in principle.

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
    In Grafana UI:


    In grafana logs:

Feb  4 23:14:57 grafana grafana[825]: t=2024-02-04T23:14:57+0000 lvl=eror msg="Data proxy error" logger=data-proxy-log userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin path=/api/datasources/proxy/148/metrics/find remote_addr={some IP} referer="https://grafana-catoalpha.via.catonetworks.com/d/zWEHinvSk/leonid-playground?orgId=1&editview=templating" error="http: proxy error: context canceled"
Feb  4 23:14:57 grafana grafana[825]: t=2024-02-04T23:14:57+0000 lvl=eror msg="Request Completed" logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin method=POST path=/api/datasources/proxy/148/metrics/find status=502 remote_addr={same some IP} time_ms=60001 size=0 referer="https://grafana-catoalpha.via.catonetworks.com/d/zWEHinvSk/leonid-playground?orgId=1&editview=templating"
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    Not in particular