Zabbix plugin for Grafana

[SBO]

Which version of Grafana are you running ?

[lobiDA]

Sorry, should have included that. 3.2 (latest stable).

[SBO]

No problem.

What's the output when you type

grafana-cli plugins ls

?
On my side :

[root@whatever ~]# grafana-cli plugins ls
installed plugins:
[B]alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app @ 3.0.0 [/B]
grafana-clock-panel @ 0.0.8 
grafana-piechart-panel @ 1.1.1 
grafana-worldmap-panel @ 0.0.13

Ensure that you have the grafana plugins installed.
If your grafana is an upgrade from Grafana 2.x, please also ensure you don't have an old version of the plugin still installed (you'll find it in /usr/share/grafana/public/app/plugins/datasource/zabbix, remove the zabbix directory)

[lobiDA]

grafana-cli plugins ls shows

root@ip-172-31-9-5:~# grafana-cli plugins ls
installed plugins:
alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app @ 3.0.0

Verified that I do not haev a /usr/share/grafana/public/app/plugins/datasource/zabbix directory, but I do have the "officially supported" directories:

cloudwatch elasticsearch grafana grafana-live graphite influxdb mixed opentsdb prometheus

[lobiDA]

Note that I am getting a 404 error when I use any combination with "proxy". From grafana.log:

t=2016-07-20T18:03:11+0000 lvl=info msg="Request Completed" logger=context userId=1 orgId=1 uname=admin method=POST path=/api_jsonrpc.php status=404 remote_addr=10.1.12.27 time_ns=1ns size=288

When I use "direct", I don't even get this in the log (nothing).

Nothing in zabbix_server.log.

[lobiDA]

Fixed; problem was I had the directory path wrong. Changed http://172.31.9.5/api_json.php to http://172.31.9.5/zabbix/api_json.php.



Thanks (I'm sure I'll be posting more threads for help as I'm new to setting up this kind of stuff)!!!!!

[adamdcorus]

Hello

I'm having an issue where a legacy version of the Zabbix Plugin (3.0.0-Beta8) simply never uninstalls.

As a result, any NEW version of the plugin fails to be recognized by Grafana.

This has eaten up a lot of time.

How do I remove this legacy version?

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[adamdcorus]

A further update.

While trying to remove the legacy 3.0.0-Beta8 version, I noticed that uninstalling never deleted the following:

/var/lib/grafana/data/plugins/alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app

So I removed that, then reinstalled the plugin from scratch:

grafana-cli plugins install alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
service grafana-server restart

According to your documentation, I'm supposed to now see the plugin in the Plugins -> App section.

But it's not there.

I'm running Grafana 4.0.1-beta1

Can ANYBODY assist in getting this working?

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[alexanderzobnin]

You should check installation path (default for grafana-cli) and plugin directory in grafana config. Sometimes grafana-cli installs plugin in ./data/plugins, but sometimes in /var/lib/grafana/plugins (depends of type of Grafana package).

[adamdcorus]

Hello and thanks for the reply.

Our server's grafana plugins directory is:

/var/lib/grafana/plugins

I don't see anything related to grafana in "/data" (I'd need more info, that looked like an incomplete path.)

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[alexanderzobnin]

Restart grafana-server and look at its log. Is zabbix plugin loaded?

[alexanderzobnin]

You should see something like this:

alexanderzobnin@alexander-laptop:grafana$ ./bin/grafana-server
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Starting Grafana                         logger=main version=4.0.0-beta1 commit=v3.1.0-1401-g6a81389 compiled=2016-11-09T16:48:51+0300
...
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Path Data                                logger=settings path=/Users/alexanderzobnin/development/grafana/work_dir/src/github.com/grafana/grafana/data
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Path Logs                                logger=settings path=/Users/alexanderzobnin/development/grafana/work_dir/src/github.com/grafana/grafana/data/log
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Path Plugins                             logger=settings path=/Users/alexanderzobnin/development/grafana/work_dir/src/github.com/grafana/grafana/data/plugins
...
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Registering plugin                       logger=plugins name=Zabbix
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Registering plugin                       logger=plugins name="Zabbix Triggers"
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Registering plugin                       logger=plugins name=Zabbix
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Registering plugin                       logger=plugins name=Crate
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Registering plugin                       logger=plugins name="Pie Chart"
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Initializing Alerting                    logger=alerting.engine
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Initializing CleanUpService              logger=cleanup
INFO[11-16|18:28:37] Initializing HTTP Server                 logger=server address=0.0.0.0:3000 protocol=http subUrl=

[adamdcorus]

Hello and thanks again

I instead see this:

t=2016-11-16T11:20:31-0500 lvl=info msg="Starting plugin search" logger=plugins
t=2016-11-16T11:20:31-0500 lvl=eror msg="Plugins: Failed to load plugin json file: [/usr/share/grafana/public/app/plugins/datasource/zabbix/plugin.json Did not find type and id property in plugin.json],  err: %!v(MISSING)"

How do I fix this?

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[alexanderzobnin]

Just remove directory /usr/share/grafana/public/app/plugins/datasource/zabbix
It's deprecated place for third-party plugins.

[adamdcorus]

Okay. I did that.

Restarted grafana.

grafana-cli plugins ls still showed version 3.1.2 as installed, so I went:

grafana-cli plugins remove alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
service grafana-server restart
grafana-cli plugins install alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
service grafana-server restart
service grafana-server ls

It now again shows version 3.1.2 as installed, but again on the Plugins -> apps page, no sign of Zabbix plugin (or the general plugins page either.)

Log from the restart:

t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Shutdown started" logger=server code=0 reason="system signal: terminated"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Stopped CleanUpService" logger=cleanup reason="context canceled"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Stopped Alerting" logger=alerting.engine reason="context canceled"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Shutdown completed" logger=server reason="context canceled"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Starting Grafana" logger=main version=4.0.0-beta1 commit=v4.0.0-beta1 compiled=2016-11-09T06:52:56-0500
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Config loaded from" logger=settings file=/usr/share/grafana/conf/defaults.ini
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Config loaded from" logger=settings file=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Config overriden from command line" logger=settings arg="default.paths.data=/var/lib/grafana"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Config overriden from command line" logger=settings arg="default.paths.logs=/var/log/grafana"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Config overriden from command line" logger=settings arg="default.paths.plugins=/var/lib/grafana/plugins"
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Path Home" logger=settings path=/usr/share/grafana
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Path Data" logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Path Logs" logger=settings path=/var/log/grafana
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Path Plugins" logger=settings path=/var/lib/grafana/data/plugins
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Initializing DB" logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Starting DB migration" logger=migrator
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Ldap enabled, reading config file" logger=ldap file=/etc/grafana/ldap.toml
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Starting plugin search" logger=plugins
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Initializing Alerting" logger=alerting.engine
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Initializing CleanUpService" logger=cleanup
t=2016-11-16T11:33:13-0500 lvl=info msg="Initializing HTTP Server" logger=server address=localhost:3000 protocol=http subUrl=

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