Cannot connect to Influx datasource from Grafana

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Hello, I’ve been trying to create myself a raspberry pi temperature sensor and with some of the excellent articles out there, I’ve got to the point where it seems I am nearly complete.

I have been following this guide: GitHub - WesleyCharlesBlake/raspberry-pi-temperature: OneWire temp logger on RPI, with a remote Grafana and InfluxDB stack deployed with Docker

I have created my Ubuntu server VM, installed Docker and ran the following commands to get the containers created, but for some reason, I cannot get Grafana to connect to InfluxDB.

My settings are as follows:

InfluxDB details: Database: dbname user: user password: pass

Now, my Raspberry Pi is running the python script and outputting a temperature. I have configured the Pi script with the following:

  • influx_host = ‘10.16.61.59’
  • host = ‘grafana’
  • port = 8086
  • dbname = ‘dbname’
  • user = ‘user’
  • password = ‘pass’
  • temp_sensor = ‘/sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0113136957aa/w1_slave’

Whenever I try to Save and Test the datasource, I am getting:

*Network Error: Bad Gateway (502)

I’ve done a bit of searching and can’t seem to identify why it will not connect to the InfluxDB.

When I try to save and Test, I get this output from my Docker VM:

grafana_1 | 2019/01/07 20:29:39 http: proxy error: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8086: connect: connection refused grafana_1 | t=2019-01-07T20:29:39+0000 lvl=info msg=“Request Completed” logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin method=GET path=/api/datasources/proxy/1/query status=502 remote_addr=10.16.12.21 time_ms=15 size=0 referer=http://10.16.61.59:3000/datasources/edit/1

It seems that Influx is refusing my connection?

Does anybody know what may be wrong?

Thank you

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Hi,

As you are using Docker containers for your setup, you need to be aware how the networking stack works with Docker Compose.

  influx:
    image: influxdb
    ports:
     - "8083:8083"
     - "8086:8086"

With the above, your InfluxDB service is publishing ports to the host. This means your logger.py script can connect to InfluxDB on localhost:8086.

As Grafana runs as a container inside of the Docker networking stack, Grafana should be configured to speak to InfluxDB using the http://influx:8086 (when using “Access: Server”) or localhost when using “Access: Client”.

When using server access, you use influx as the hostname because that is what your service is called within the docker-compose.yml file.

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i had same issue. using container name instead of local host solved my problem

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Hi @Hasan_Hassu welcome and thank you for your feedback :slight_smile:

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Hi, I am facing same issue, influxdb_V2 and Grafana on docker (synology nas), but cannot succeed to connect Grafana to influxdb, have tried all combination of Query Language (InfluxQL & Influx), even replaced the bucket name by bucket ID still having error message “Failed to fetch”. Could you please advise? Thanks

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Definitive guide for configuring InfluxDB v2 OSS with Grafana: Use Grafana with InfluxDB OSS | InfluxDB OSS 2.0 Documentation