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Grafana CLI

Grafana Labs

Local administration tool for managing Grafana server plugins and configuration.

Observability & Monitoring
01Agent Notes

grafana-cli is for local Grafana server management (plugin installation, admin tasks). Not for querying dashboards or data. Use `grafana-cli plugins install <plugin>` to install plugins. `grafana-cli plugins list-remote` to search. `grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password` for admin recovery. For API-level management, use the Grafana HTTP API directly.


02Global Flags
FlagTypeDescription
--pluginsDirstringPath to Grafana plugins directory
--homepathstringPath to Grafana install/home path

03Authentication
Methods
config-file
Config files
/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

04Install
apt-get install grafana
Download binary →

05Capabilities
Reference
binarygrafana-cli
checkgrafana-cli --version
authconfig-file
formatstext
version12.4.1