Welcome to this little HowTo on setting up an InfluxDB Datasource for Grafana. If you have followed the other guides on setting up influxdb and installing Grafana on Centos then you should be able to follow this little guide with ease.
We’re first going to clarify some requirements for being able to setup InfluxDB as a datasource. InfluxDB has the ability to enable user authentication for accessing the database ( look here for details ). For this HowTo we are going to assume that we did not setup user authentication and also have InfluxDB installed on the very same server as Grafana so we are using a CentOs 7 system.
This will allow to connect to your InfluxDB without authentication using the http protocol.
Now you can continue with setting up your Dashboard !