zongkuiy / grafana4tb

make grafana connecting to thingsboard

Grafana Support Thinsboard

A backend project for Grafana connecting to ThingsBoard server using Simple-Json-Datasource(a grafana datasource plugin).

Build

• Build and maven install the thingsboard maven dependencies

• Set the thingsboard version in grafana4tb pom.xml

        <thingsboard.version>2.4.1-SNAPSHOT</thingsboard.version>

• maven build

        mvn clean package

Start Server

• Copy the thingsboard configuration file(thingsboard.yml) and modify the bind port if needed

• Start the server using the configuration file on above step

        java -jar grafana4tb-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.config.location=/your/conf/dir/ 

Install the simple json datasource plugin on grafana

• Refer https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource

Config the datasource

• Grafana Dashboard -> Configuration -> Datasources
• Add datasoure -> filter 'simplejson'
• Configuration as below:

Field	Value
HTTP.URL	http://<grafana4tb_host>:<grafana4tb_port>/grafana/<device_token>
HTTP.ACCESS	server/client both work
Auth	default
Basic Auth Details	default