Creating a Grafana instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Grafana service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Grafana box and click the green View button.

You will see the Grafana information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Grafana application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, a keypair, and a security group for it. Regarding the security group, make sure it includes a rule allowing incoming TCP connections to port 3000.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Grafana Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Grafana dashboard

You need the administrator’s predefined username and password, as well as the URL of your Grafana instance. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the Grafana row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

We recommend you create a new entry in your password manager, and populate all necessary fields with values from the corresponding output keys.

For the preset password, click the icon in the Action column of the admin_password row. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the password into the clipboard. When ready, click the Back button to close the window.

Similarly, get the administrator’s username from the admin_username row.

And finally, get your Grafana deployment’s URL from the grafana_url row.

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to your Grafana deployment’s URL. The Grafana login page appears. Use the default username and password, and click the Log in button.

The Grafana landing page appears.

Start from the official Grafana documentation page to learn how to use your new data visualization service.