grafana/README.md

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Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB.

![](http://docs.grafana.org/assets/img/features/dashboard_ex1.png)

## Grafana v5 Alpha Preview
Grafana master is now v5.0 alpha. This is going to be the biggest and most foundational release Grafana has ever had, coming with a ton of UX improvements, a new dashboard grid engine, dashboard folders, user teams and permissions. Checkout out this [video preview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_YRNpqj5k) of Grafana v5.

## Installation
Head to [docs.grafana.org](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/) and [download](https://grafana.com/get)
the latest release.

If you have any problems please read the [troubleshooting guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/troubleshooting/).

## Documentation & Support
Be sure to read the [getting started guide](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/gettingstarted/) and the other feature guides.

## Run from master
If you want to build a package yourself, or contribute - Here is a guide for how to do that. You can always find
the latest master builds [here](https://grafana.com/grafana/download)

### Dependencies

- Go 1.9
- NodeJS LTS

### Building the backend
```bash
go get github.com/grafana/grafana
cd ~/go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana
go run build.go setup
go run build.go build
```

### Building frontend assets

For this you need nodejs (v.6+).

```bash
npm install -g yarn
yarn install --pure-lockfile
npm run watch
```

Run tests 
```bash
npm run jest
```

Run karma tests
```bash
npm run karma
```

### Recompile backend on source change

To rebuild on source change.
```bash
go get github.com/Unknwon/bra
bra run
```

Open grafana in your browser (default: `http://localhost:3000`) and login with admin user (default: `user/pass = admin/admin`).

### Dev config

Create a custom.ini in the conf directory to override default configuration options.
You only need to add the options you want to override. Config files are applied in the order of:

1. grafana.ini
1. custom.ini

In your custom.ini uncomment (remove the leading `;`) sign. And set `app_mode = development`.

### Running tests

- You can run backend Golang tests using "go test ./pkg/...".
- Execute all frontend tests with "npm run test"

Writing & watching frontend tests (we have two test runners)

- jest for all new tests that do not require browser context (React+more)
   - Start watcher: `npm run jest`
   - Jest will run all test files that end with the name ".jest.ts"
- karma + mocha is used for testing angularjs components. We do want to migrate these test to jest over time (if possible).
  - Start watcher: `npm run karma`
  - Karma+Mocha runs all files that end with the name "_specs.ts".

## Contribute

If you have any idea for an improvement or found a bug, do not hesitate to open an issue.
And if you have time clone this repo and submit a pull request and help me make Grafana
the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!

## Plugin development

Checkout the [Plugin Development Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/developing/development/) and checkout the [PLUGIN_DEV.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/PLUGIN_DEV.md) file for changes in Grafana that relate to
plugin development.

## License

Grafana is distributed under Apache 2.0 License.