Starting in Grafana 3.x the KairosDB data source is no longer included out of the box and is maintained here (currently tested against Grafana v6.6.0).
This data source plugin consists of two components: a frontend and a backend.
The backend plugin provides support for alerts, but is not required to use the frontend browser-based KairosDB connectivity.
Copy the plugin distribution directory (./dist) to the correctly named plugin directory as a child of the grafana plugins directory (eg cp ./dist /var/lib/grafana/plugins/kairosdb-datasource). This enables the frontend plugin and backend datasource proxy (enabled by configuring a KairosDB Datasource as "Access: Server"). The pre-compiled backend plugin supports linux-amd64 and macos (darwin-amd64). If you are running grafana on a different architecture you will need to compile the backend go project yourself.
If building only the front end, the plugin can be cloned anywhere and built:
git clone https://github.com/grafana/kairosdb-datasource
cd kairosdb-datasource
make frontend
The ./dist directory can then be copied to your Grafana plugins directory:
cp /dist /var/lib/grafana/plugins/kairosdb-datasource
The alerting functionality will not be available without deploying the backend compiled binary.
If you wish to build the backend plugin for your environment, your project must be setup within a Go workspace.
Ensure your GOPATH environment variable points to your workspace:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kairosdb
git clone https://github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb-datasource
cd kairosdb-datasource
# vendor dependencies are managed via "dep ensure"
make backend
This will attempt to build both the linux and macos binaries. The ./dist directory can then be copied to your Grafana plugins directory:
cp /dist /var/lib/grafana/plugins/kairosdb-datasource
A custom grafana image can built which includes the kairosdb plugin. After the above build steps have been completed:
make docker
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana grafana-kairosdb:latest
The default login is admin:kairosdb. There are several build options that can be overridden. The base image was taken from building-a-custom-grafana-image.