Running InfluxDB and Grafana in Docker

March 02, 2018

My next project will use InfluxDB and Grafana for performance test metric capture. While searching for how to run InfluxDB and Grafana using docker I didn’t find any simple instructions, so, after a few more searches I ended up with the following:

Start InfluxDB

docker run -d -p 8086:8086 \
      --name=influxdb  \
      -v influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb \
      influxdb

For more info see: https://hub.docker.com/_/influxdb/

Create a database:

curl -i -XPOST http://localhost:8086/query --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb"

Start Grafana

docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

For more info see: https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana/

Access Grafana on http://machine-name:3000 then setup access to InfluxDB via the UI.