# Chronograf only shows Hosts from default database

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448>\
**Category:** Dashboards\
**Created:** [September 24, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448 "2017-09-24T15:42:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pstatho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/pstatho/32/1816_2.png) [@pstatho](https://community.influxdata.com/u/pstatho)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448/1 "2017-09-24T15:42:05Z")

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I’m segragating different customers into different databases for multi-tenancy separation. However the convenience on having a Host list in Chronograf is a bit useless if I can’t change the database. Is this a current limitation or am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![dgnorton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/dgnorton/32/40_2.png) [@dgnorton](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dgnorton)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448/2 "2017-09-25T17:35:59Z")

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How are the data sources setup in Chronograf? One for each DB?

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**Author:** ![pstatho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/pstatho/32/1816_2.png) [@pstatho](https://community.influxdata.com/u/pstatho)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448/3 "2017-09-25T17:52:14Z")

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I have multiple telegraf agents per location and in each config they are set to report into their own database. For example:

Customer1

- database = “customer1”
- hosts:  
– c1-host1  
– c1-host2  
Customer2
- database = “customer2”
- hosts:  
– c2-host1  
– c2-host2  
etc…

However in chronograf the hosts page only lists the host from the default database “telegraf”. I would like to see the list of hosts for the other databases and their default dashboard.

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**Author:** ![dgnorton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/dgnorton/32/40_2.png) [@dgnorton](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dgnorton)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/chronograf-only-shows-hosts-from-default-database/2448/4 "2017-09-25T19:43:35Z")

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Ah, I read that as “Grafana” instead of “Chronograf”. Sorry for the confusion. You’re right. This is currently a limitation of Chronograf. I’ve created a [feature request](https://github.com/influxdata/chronograf/issues/2023) to allow populating the `Host List` page from multiple databases.

As a work around, you could write a Kapacitor script to populate a separate database with a list of all hosts.