Grafana Datasource
Use StackState as a Grafana datasource
StackState can be used as a datasource for Grafana. This will allow to use Grafana as a visualization tool for your StackState data. This is useful if you already have some dashboards which you want to keep using. Because StackState exposes a Prometheus-compatible API, you can use the Prometheus datasource in Grafana to connect to StackState. This also makes StackState usable with other Prometheus-compatible solutions.
Before you can add StackState as a datasource in Grafana, you need to setup a ServiceToken to authenticate with StackState. StackState recommends to create a dedicated role with permissions for this purpose.
You can do this via the StackState CLI:
> sts rbac create-subject --subject grafana
✅ Created subject 'grafana'
> sts rbac grant --subject grafana --permission read-metrics
✅ Granted permission 'read-metrics' on 'system' to subject 'grafana'
PERMISSION | RESOURCE
read-metrics | system
This will create a new role in StackState called
grafana
and grant it the read-metrics
permission. You can then create a ServiceToken for this role:> sts service-token create --name grafana --roles grafana
✅ Service token created: svctok-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The returned ServiceToken can be used to authenticate with StackState. You can now add StackState as a datasource in Grafana.
With the created ServiceToken, you can now add StackState as a datasource in Grafana. To do this, go to the Grafana UI and navigate to the datasource configuration page. Click on the
Add data source
button and select Prometheus
from the list of datasources.
Grafana new datasource
On the datasource configuration page, enter the following configuration details:
- Name: StackState
- URL:
https://<tenant-name>.app.stackstate.io/prometheus
- Custom HTTP Headers
- Header:
X-API-Key
- Value:
<service-token>

Grafana datasource configuration
Click on the
Save & Test
button to save the datasource. If the configuration is correct, you should see a green Data source is working
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