@thedarkula @sshmendez These variables equate to Grafana config settings. There is a passage on the config page that talks about how these are programmatically generated, and how you can determine them on your own. Configuration Configuration documentation Answer from anon70503803 on community.grafana.com
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Documentation For Docker Image Environment Variables - Grafana - Grafana Labs Community Forums
August 10, 2021 - With the official docker image, I have seen a number of environment variables mentioned that I cannot find any documentation for. One example is GF_AUTH_GENERIC_OAUTH_NAME . I would like to be able to control the team …
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Configure a Grafana Docker image | Grafana documentation
The following command runs Grafana Enterprise on port 3000 in detached mode and installs the custom plugin, which is specified as a URL parameter in the GF_PLUGINS_PREINSTALL environment variable. ... docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana \ -e "GF_PLUGINS_PREINSTALL=custom-plugin@@http://plugin-domain.com/my-custom-plugin.zip,grafana-clock-panel" \ grafana/grafana-enterprise
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amazon web services - How do I change Grafana docker container environment variables on AWS Fargate to use a mysql database - Stack Overflow
How do I change Grafana Docker container environment variables on AWS Fargate to use a mysql database? I am very new to AWS and containers. Is it through the cmd line? When I type "docker ps -... More on stackoverflow.com
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Changed Environment Variables do not get picked up in Grafana even though the `env` command has the updated values
Create the updated docker-compose.yml file using make build and bring the container up using make run · This should make the container available on the same URL, however when one tries to login with the updated GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD, the login does not work. Grafana logs me in only with the previous password set ... Assuming the container is brought down and brought back up again, the new environment variables ... More on github.com
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I have quite a weird problem and I'm really not sure where it comes from. I'm trying to run a Grafana inside a Docker Container and want to set some grafana.ini values through Environment Variables... More on stackoverflow.com
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How to set ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true?

Yeah i ran into this problem. What i ended up having to do was copy the default co configuration file into a new file and change the ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true. I then had to rebuild my container and bind mount the modified config file into a directory, i put it in the same directory as the default config. You have to define a new env variable of GF_PATHS_CONFIG and point it to wherever you bound your updated config file. May be a better way to do this but that's how i got it to work.

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Configure Grafana | Grafana documentation
Set the name of the Grafana server instance. Used in logging, internal metrics, and clustering info. Defaults to: ${HOSTNAME}, which uses the value of the environment variable HOSTNAME, if that is empty or doesn’t exist Grafana tries to use system calls to get the machine name.
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May 18, 2025 - Grafana itself can be configured using environment variables following the pattern GF_<SECTION>_<KEY>, where:
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Datasource configuration via environment variables, example: docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \ -e "DS_NAME=datasource_name" \ -e "DS_TYPE=datasource type (CloudWatch, Graphite, InfluxDB, etc...)" \ -e "DS_ACCESS=proxy or direct" \ -e "DS_URL=datasource url" \ -e "DS_PASS=pass" \ -e "DS_USER=user" \ -e "DS_DB=dbname" \ -e "DS_AUTH=false" \ -e "DS_AUTH_USER=" \ -e "AUTH_PASS=" \ -e "DS_IS_DEFAULT=false" \ -e "DS_JSON_DATA=null" \ qapps/grafana-docker Copy
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A Grafana container uses a Grafana image maintained by i2 Group on Docker Hub. In the docker run command, you can use -e to pass environment variables to Grafana on the container.
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June 19, 2025 - GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP – Enables or disables user sign-ups. GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS – Auto-installs plugins at startup, defined in a comma-separated list. To pass environment variables, use the -e flag in your docker run command:
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amazon web services - How do I change Grafana docker container environment variables on AWS Fargate to use a mysql database - Stack Overflow
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You need to define correct variables in the ECS task definition, e.g.:

GF_DATABASE_TYPE: mysql
GF_DATABASE_HOST: my-mysql:3306
GF_DATABASE_USER: my-user
GF_DATABASE_PASSWORD: my-password

Of course you may need to more if you have specific DB configuration. All options are documented: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/configuration/#database

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Changed Environment Variables do not get picked up in Grafana even though the `env` command has the updated values · Issue #49055 · grafana/grafana
May 17, 2022 - Use make build to generated docker-compose.yml file and then make run to bring the container up. The GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER, GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD are set via the conf/grafana/.env.
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Grafana in Docker: not all Environment variables are transferred to grafana.ini - Stack Overflow
Could it be that you run grafana before and it already created the admin user? In such a case it may or may not replace it with your env var.
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February 13, 2023 - Here’s an example of using environment variables: docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \ -e "GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret" \ -e "GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false" \ grafana/grafana
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r/grafana on Reddit: How to set ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true?
April 19, 2020 -

Hello,

I am running Grafana in a Docker Desktop image (Win 10) and am trying to set environment variable ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true in order to add my grafana dashboard as an iframe to home assistant (also in a docker container).

Per the documentation (https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/configuration/#configure-with-environment-variables), I should be able to override the configuration file using "GF_SECURITY_ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true" (without quotes). After entering this in the CLI and restarting my grafana container, I am still seeing allow_embedding=false in the /etc/grafana/grafana.ini file. I also tried "export GF_SECURITY_ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true" (without quotes) in the CLI/restarting to no avail.

Does anyone run grafana in docker desktop and been able to allow embedding of their dashboard(s)? Thank you in advance for any assistance!

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Yeah i ran into this problem. What i ended up having to do was copy the default co configuration file into a new file and change the ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true. I then had to rebuild my container and bind mount the modified config file into a directory, i put it in the same directory as the default config. You have to define a new env variable of GF_PATHS_CONFIG and point it to wherever you bound your updated config file. May be a better way to do this but that's how i got it to work.

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You could simply use an env variable to set allow_embedding in grafana config:

GF_SECURITY_ALLOW_EMBEDDING=true

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r/grafana on Reddit: Grafana docker-compose file update with environment variable.
February 10, 2022 -

I'm using Grafana using docker-compose file, when i tried to change the minimum refresh time from 5s to 1s in the grafana.ini file, but i realize that it is read-only file. So how do i fix this ?

**i don't have any environmental variables defined in the docker-compose file.

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What volume settings do you have in your docker-compose file ?
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The Environment variable works Fine so that 1s is available on the Dashboards drop down. But for some reason Grafana seems to overwrite the „refresh“ setting of 1s in the Dashboard.json. It defaults back to 5s and I always have to select 1s manually. Is there something I am missing or a workaround?
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March 19, 2022 - The volume mount means the directory's ... the container stops or your host restarts. You can override Grafana's config keys by setting environment variables when you start your container....
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July 19, 2023 - docker run -d --name=sample_grafana -v grafana-storage:/var/lib/grafana \ -p 3000:3000 -e GF_DEFAULT_INSTANCE_NAME=my-grafana \ -e GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER=demo -e \ GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD__FILE=/run/secrets/password grafana/grafana · Setting custom configurations with environment variables can be a drawn-out process, with each variable needing to be declared.
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I just came across precisely the same problem and managed to solve it (albeit in a way that could definitely be considered "hacky").

I created a grafana.ini file like this:

[server]
http_port = <HTTP_PORT>

I also created a shell script which runs sed on that grafana.ini file at the time of deployment (i.e. on the Heroku server which deploys the docker image and has the $PORT env variable set).

sed -i -e 's|<HTTP_PORT>|'$PORT'|' /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
/run.sh

Lastly I created a Dockerfile that inherited from the standard grafana image and runs the above shell script against that ini file before running the grafana server. (Grafana sets the ENTRYPOINT of their image to /run.sh, see here).

FROM grafana/grafana
ADD heroku-run.sh /
ADD grafana.ini /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
ENTRYPOINT [ "/heroku-run.sh" ]

After running your Heroku build/push/release commands then the end result should be a deployed Grafana service on Heroku.

The obvious added benefit to this is that all your grafana secrets can be stored in environment variables defined for your Heroku app config and then just add more sed commands for them in the heroku-run.sh (or jazz up the shell script and parameterise the variables).

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Grafana and Docker: Setup, Configure, and Monitor (2026) | Last9
2 weeks ago - While Grafana is secure out of the box, Docker adds an extra layer of complexity. Make sure to: Use Environment Variables for sensitive data like passwords and API keys.
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Set up your Docker development environment | Grafana Plugin Tools
To override this image, alter the docker-compose.yaml by changing the grafana_image build argument: ... This example assigns the environment variable GRAFANA_IMAGE to the build arg grafana_image with a default value of grafana.
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Installing on Docker - Grafana Documentation
Grafana has an official Docker container. ... All Grafana configuration settings can be defined using environment variables, this is especially useful when using the above container.