How to make Grafana container data persistent

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created one docker container for Grafana. But whenever I removed the container the database also erased automatically. But I want to connect the same database to a different container. How can I make the Grafana database persistent?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to create a volume in Docker and mount the same volume to your docker container. Then only your database will not erase. You can use the below commands. 

• Create a persistent volume for your data in /var/lib/grafana (database and plugins) 

$ docker volume create grafana-storage 

• Start Grafana container

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana -v grafana-storage:/var/lib/grafana grafana/grafana