# How do I visualize data from InfluxDB Cloud?

**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961
**Category:** Grafana
**Tags:** influxdb-cloud-2-0
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961 "2022-02-22T07:57:23Z")
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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/1 "2022-02-22T07:57:23Z")

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Hi, I want to make a dashboard to visualize my InfluxDB Cloud data in Grafana.

First of all, i create a data source of InfluxDB with the next configuration in Grafana

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/3/328de8d05aeee37eb23c45b81ed227390ce76e56.png)  
The URL is until orgs/…

After that, I created a dashboard and make the connection with the data source i recently created:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/e/e73c84838f7fdf6a7a7c0368e553247772ccca34.png)

But, nothing happened and it appears the next message: “Expected response data to be array, got undefined” on the top left corner.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/d/dccd0986f313f2d9e7979576d4e99e012141ae3e.png)

Somebody knows how to fix this.

Thank you beforehands

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### Author: ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/2 "2022-02-23T10:46:05Z")

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Hi @JMU,  
Have you tried running the same query using Flux? Also within grafana have you defined your access token. I couldn’t see one in the configuration you sent. This will prevent you from reading data directly from your cloud instance.

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/3 "2022-02-23T10:54:22Z")

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Hi Jay\_Clifford,

I don’t understand what you mean about the access token. About Flux, how would it be?

Sorry for the problems

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### Author: ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/4 "2022-02-23T11:02:25Z")

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Hi @JMU,  
No problems at all! Happy to help you get up and running 🙂 . Here is my configuration for connecting to Grafana.

 ![Screenshot 2022-02-23 at 10.58.16](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/a/a964fd3f965e12c8af5291f869787a863560a395.png)  
When using InfluxDB Cloud you require a token to read and write your data to InfluxDB. These are generated from the following panel:  
 ![Screenshot 2022-02-23 at 11.01.03](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/3/3b456d5fae269335187ebde941268f014f03bb40.jpeg)

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 11:50am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/5 "2022-02-23T11:50:15Z")

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I don’t have the option of the query language option neither token nor default bucker.  
Do you know why?

Really thankful to you Jay

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### Author: ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/6 "2022-02-24T09:55:50Z")

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Hi @JMU, sorry for the late reply. What version of Grafana are you using? Can you not see flux in the drop-down list?

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/7 "2022-02-24T09:58:00Z")

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No worries Jay\_Clifford

We have the Grafana v6.4.3.

I can not see the drop-down list

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### Author: ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/8 "2022-02-24T10:29:06Z")

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Can you try upgrading to the latest / build greater than 7.1. Flux support was not added till 7.1. 🙂

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/9 "2022-02-24T12:33:29Z")

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After upgrading to version 8.4.1.

I’ve got the next configuration:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/d/d44c5f8c56a4eaf5d480b19c4242df50dc4c766c.png)

In the token field I write the value of what i have on the variable Influx\_token on the environment variable of windows.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/3/357ceaf3b15785ea5bd051fdc13f869cc135dffb.png)

However, this message keeps appearing:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/2X/e/e28ca5f5b7474c6f4701cc8e007de03acdeb6c9f.png)

Any suggestions?

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/10 "2022-02-28T09:07:49Z")

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How do I know which is the error?

Maybe watching the logs?

However, I don’t know how to visualize them.

I’m stuck with this problem

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### Author: ![Jay\_Clifford](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jay_clifford/32/8287_2.png) [@Jay\_Clifford](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Jay_Clifford)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/11 "2022-02-28T10:28:49Z")

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Hi JMU, could you try entering the token manually? Just to see if the problem resolves 🙂 Grafana I believe stores this token securely for you.

Thanks,  
Jay

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### Author: ![JMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JMU](https://community.influxdata.com/u/JMU)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-do-i-visualize-data-from-influxdb-cloud/23961/12 "2022-02-28T11:20:59Z")

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> [@Jay\_Clifford](#):
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> Hi JMU, could you try entering the token manually? Just to see if the problem resolves 🙂 Grafana I believe stores this token securely for you.

I write it manually and still the same error ☹
