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Waleed Naveed
Waleed Naveed

Reputation: 2381

Unable to run Grafana server on local system

I have to create a plugin for Grafana. For that i cloned the code from Github and followed this. I have managed to build the grafana but having issue in running the server. I am getting the error 

Grafana-server Init Failed: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or working directory is homepath

I did find this issue at issue. I have copied the "sample.ini" and re-named it to "custom.ini" and used the following commands in the bin folder made after building the grafana

.\grafana-server.exe --config D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini

.\grafana-server.exe D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini

.\grafana-server.exe -config D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini

.\grafana-server.exe -config "D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini"

.\grafana-server.exe --config "D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini"

.\grafana-server.exe "D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\custom.ini"

But non of them worked. I am still getting the error

Grafana-server Init Failed: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or working directory is homepath

What am i doing wrong ? I am new to Grafana development, any help would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 17955

Answers (2)

Narayanan
Narayanan

Reputation: 181

In case someone looking for Mac, the below works. I tried with grafana version 8.x . For default install, No need to give -config as -homepath should take care. this could run from any location.

/grafana-install-path/bin/grafana-server -homepath /grafana-install-path web

Upvotes: 2

Waleed Naveed
Waleed Naveed

Reputation: 2381

I have managed to resolve the issue. I ran the Grafana locally by using following command

 ./grafana-server.exe -config "D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana\conf\defaults.ini" -homepath "D:\Go-UpdatedWorkSpace\grafana".

I executed this command on the "bin" folder created after building the grafana with GoLang. (There is also a bin folder inside the homepath directory, i think we can use any of then "bin" folder). Issue was that i was not providing "homepath" in the command. "homepath" is the directory where grafana code is cloned.

Upvotes: 7

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