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Setting up Grafana

Setting Up a Grafana Dashboard and Requesting a Demo Dashboard

Updated over a month ago

Please note: This page assumes prior creation of a free Grafana account. To do so, simply head to https://grafana.com/ and follow their steps to create a free account. Importantly, Ranlytics is not affiliated with Grafana, and use their services as an example of the visualisation and analytics possible using KALLO data.

1. Get a Kallo API Key

  1. Login to your Ranlytics account at app.ranlytics.com

  2. Navigate to the Kallo API Page - Kallo - API Keys

  3. Click the New Key button

  4. Provide a useful name to this API Key. eg. Grafana Demo

  5. Click the checkmark to save this key

  6. Copy the output API Key to safe location - It will only be provided once

2. Setup a Grafana Data Source

Please note: If you already have the Infinity plugin configured on your Grafana instance skip to step 2.

  1. Install the Infinity Data Source Plugin

    1. Navigate to Infinity Plugin page

    2. Click Get Plugin in the left column

    3. Select the Grafana organisation you wish to install the plugin into (this option may not be presented if you have a single Grafana organisation)

    4. Click Install Plugin next to the Grafana instance you want to install the plugin on

    5. Navigate to the Grafana instance the plugin was installed on - You can do this using the link presented under the instance name

  2. Setup the Infinity data source

    1. Open the menu in the top left on of the Grafana interface

    2. Navigate to Connections → Data Sources

    3. Click Add New Data Source

    4. Search for Infinity in the Search field

    5. Click the Infinity result returned.

  3. Name the data source

    1. In the Name field, enter your desired name for this data source

  4. Set the API Key header

    1. Click on the Headers & URL params section button

    2. Click the Add Custom HTTP Header button

    3. In the Key input field, enter api-key

    4. In the Value input field, enter your Kallo API Key generated in section 1.

  5. Add the Ranlytics API URLs to the Allowed hosts

    1. Click on the Security section button

    2. In the Allowed hosts input field, enter

      https://app.ranlytics.com

    3. Click the Add button

  6. Allow dashboard health checks

    1. Click on the Health check section button

    2. Switch the Enable custom health check slider into the enabled state

    3. In the Health check URL field, enter

      https://app.ranlytics.com/v1/graphql

  7. Save the data source

    1. Click the Save & test button

Please note: Your Ranlytics KALLO API data source is now ready for use with a Grafana Dashboard or Grafana Alerts

3. Request a Demo Template

  1. Navigate to your Ranlytics Kallo API Infinity data source

    1. Open the menu in the top left on of the Grafana interface

    2. Navigate to Connections → Data Sources

    3. Click the name of the data source in the list which was configured in the previous (Setup a Grafana Data Source) steps

  2. Copy the URL of this page from your browser - It should resemble

    https://<your Grafana instance>.grafana.net/connections/datasources/edit/<random numbers and letters>

  3. Complete the Demo Dashboard Request Form and input the above URL.

  4. Once submitted, a Ranlytics representative will reach out with a template ready to import into your Grafana account

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