Grafana - InfluxDB Error: undefined

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Hello,

Trying to configure grafana to use InfluxDBv2.
When connecting I see this:

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I have done the following:

  • Confirmed InfluxDB is listening on 8086 on localhost
  • tested telnet access to Influx 8086 to see the tcp port is open.
  • Performed a “influx query” with my token, this worked.
  • Tried “Basic Auth” with the same login creds for InfluxDB
  • tried a bad username I know does not exist - same error
  • tried a bad ip / port I know is not listening on the host - same error.

What is strange to me is grafana uses the word “Database”, however I see no where in InfluxDB where there are databases. Is a bucket a database? What would be causing this problem?

Why am I getting this error?

One more note. Grafana is running as a docker container, InfluxDBv2 is running as a systemd service on the host. Is this a network issue? I tried doing a docker exec into grafana but there are no tools for me to test (telnet, nc) to see if it can connect to localhost:8086, any recommendations?

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It looks like an InfluxDBv1 connection to me.
Which Grafana version do you use?
What can you select under Type property?

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@Franky1

Dropping down type only shows InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, Graphite, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and Prometheus.
The docker container shows “grafana:4.2.0”, which appears to be ancient.
I have another grafana running version 7.3.7 used for a different service on a different host. When adding the “InfluxDB” data source there I have access to different query languages such as InfluxQL and Flux. Be aware this Grafana cannot be used as it is on a different VPN.
I assume that is the problem?
If I wanted downgrade influxDB instead of upgrade Grafana, where can I get access to 1.x .deb files? The InfluxDB site does not seem to share these anymore. I tried compiling from source that that became a mess quickly. Rather just get the .deb file for older version, to test on this version of Grafana.

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Yes, your grafana version seems to be way too old to support InfluxDBv2 data source.

Go down to 1.x on the download page:

https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads/

However, i would opt for upgrading grafana instead of downgrading influxdb.

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There is no 1.x listed, see image below. Any other place I can try?

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But of course, go further down the page and unfold:

Are you interested in InfluxDB 1.x Open Source?

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Right, that only gives me the source code, whereby I need to compile from source, which I ran into brick walls doing so. Also these are the same files you can get from the github page.

I am looking for 1.X .deb files. The package of precompiled installable files. Where can I find that?

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Select Ubuntu & Debian

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@Franky1, Ah your right, the tar.gz is actually the binaries compiled, just need to place them and the systemd unit where I want. Nice.
However I ended up just using an older docker container for testing. This fixed my problem, and is cleaner since Grafana is running as a container as well. At some point, will plan to upgrade everything to the latest. However I am currently anchored in to these older versions based on a older solution I am using for telemetry data. Once I get this solution working, I will work to adjust source and upgrade.
Thank you for your help!