Add Prometheus Datasources in Grafana

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Add as many as prometheus datasource into grafana with the help of terraform scripts.

Prerequisite

1. Prometheus Deployed & endpoint URL of prometheus. Headless service name if on same cluster or URL if prometheus deployed on another server.
2. Grafana endpoint URL & Port number. (default is 3000)
3. Username & Password for admin access.

Setup Authentication

1. export environment variable for authentication

export GRAFANA_AUTH="admin_username:admin_password"

2. Add Grafana URL & port in main.tf file

provider "grafana" {
  url  = "http://your-grafana-url:port"
}

Add Prometheus Datasources

Step 1

1. Open datasources.auto.tfvars file.
2. Add a map configs for your datasource

  {
    source_name = "test-app"
    type        = "prometheus"
    url         = "http://prometheus-operated.test.svc.cluster.local:9090"
  }

Terraform Scripts & modules

main.tf

provider "grafana" {
  url  = "localhost:3000"
}

terraform {
  required_providers {
    grafana = {
      source  = "grafana/grafana"
      version = "1.11.0"
    }
  }
}

module "grafana_datasoures" {
  source                  = "./grafana_module"
  prometheus_data_sources = var.prometheus_data_sources
}

variables.tf

variable "prometheus_data_sources" {
  description = "list of prometheus data sources"
}

datasources.auto.tfvars

prometheus_data_sources = [
#   {
#     source_name = "test-app"
#     type        = "prometheus"
#     url         = "http://prometheus-operated.test.svc.cluster.local:9090"
#   },
# uncomment below map & add your configs
#   {
#     source_name = "test-app"
#     type        = "prometheus"
#     url         = "http://prometheus-operated.test.svc.cluster.local:9090"
#   }
]

terraform grafana module

main.tf

terraform {
  required_providers {
    grafana = {
      source  = "grafana/grafana"
      version = "1.11.0"
    }
  }
}

datasource.tf

resource "grafana_data_source" "prometheus" {
  for_each = local.prometheus_data_sources_local
  type     = "prometheus"
  name     = each.key
  url      = each.value.url

  json_data {
    http_method = "POST"
  }
}


locals {
  prometheus_data_sources_local = {
    for ds in var.prometheus_data_sources :
    ds.source_name => {
      url = ds.url
    }
    if ds.type == "prometheus"
  }
}

variables.tf

variable "prometheus_data_sources" {
  description = "name, & URL for prometheus resource"
  default     = []
}

Run terraform

1. Install provider plugins

terraform init

2. Check Terraform plan

terraform plan

3. Apply the terraform configurations

terraform apply

And then you can see datasources is added into grafana