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Grafana with Docker Compose

Grafana with a named volume, an admin password and a Prometheus data source provisioned on start.

Customize names, versions and passwords →

services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:12.0.0
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER: admin
      GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: "change-me"
    configs:
      - source: grafana_datasources
        target: /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yaml
    volumes:
      - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:3000:3000"

configs:
  grafana_datasources:
    content: |
      apiVersion: 1
      datasources:
        - name: Prometheus
          type: prometheus
          access: proxy
          url: http://prometheus:9090
          isDefault: true

volumes:
  grafana-data:

Passwords here are placeholders (change-me). The generator creates random ones for you.

How to use it

docker compose up -d
docker compose ps
docker compose logs -f

• Open http://localhost:3000 and log in as admin.

Prefer Kubernetes? See the Grafana Kubernetes version.