Grafana CLI

Installation

Install the prebuilt binary or build Grafana CLI from source.

Installs the latest prebuilt binary for your OS/arch. No Go toolchain is required:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piyush-gambhir/grafana-cli/main/install.sh | sh

Pin a version or change the install directory:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piyush-gambhir/grafana-cli/main/install.sh | VERSION=0.2.4 sh
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piyush-gambhir/grafana-cli/main/install.sh | INSTALL_DIR=~/.local/bin sh

The script installs to /usr/local/bin by default and asks for elevated permissions when that directory is not writable.

Download a release manually

Prebuilt archives are attached to each GitHub Release. Download the archive for your OS and architecture, extract it, and put grafana on your PATH:

# example (macOS arm64) — adjust the version/asset name
curl -sSfL https://github.com/piyush-gambhir/grafana-cli/releases/latest/download/grafana-cli_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv grafana /usr/local/bin/

The install script expects assets named grafana-cli_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz, where <os> is darwin or linux and <arch> is amd64 or arm64.

Build from source

Building locally requires Go:

git clone https://github.com/piyush-gambhir/grafana-cli.git
cd grafana-cli/cli-go
make install

The binary is grafana.

Verify

grafana version

Introduction

Manage Grafana instances, dashboards, datasources, alerting, access, and more from your terminal.

Authentication

Service account tokens, basic auth, environment variables, and named connection profiles.

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