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Download Grafana

13.2.1 available!Nightly Builds

1. Choose an edition

2. Choose a version

EditionGrafana OSS
Version12.1.1
LicenseAGPLv3
Release DateAugust 13, 2025

3. Choose your platform & installation method

Standalone MacOS/Darwin Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: b2be7f75fd89df4c8178d7ba44f0bd053d971aa4e4d6051ea9108b8fabbb7b4e
Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64)SHA256: 1cceb7c7a47384a801f7822c13216959f69a617279bf9c16699fddc311a0f410
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv6)SHA256: a4812679c0c0c74d8a5670844b56280775204cf8cb8d138769560090f3fe6241
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana-rpi_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-6.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-rpi_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-6.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv7)SHA256: 652dcb735fd58d2db1651ce34819200ffb83e13b2d1cc21b0257dfb6e1efd9b1
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-7.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-7.deb
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 90481950c7854dfb3f941c323da2923a937681f29408f56e2dbcbe04b3dae765
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv6)SHA256: e39ab6e37aab66bb60cf6eaed6ce7234c5bef29755bd382b1d8f956af43b2ec5
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv7)SHA256: 89c3075e29a374a8d7070c02b53ac87ddcd283479696a2644ab1ee28f28d35fe
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(ARM64)SHA256: 2c78a254780be68d3294c2a485883320d427c0463906082481d532b2cd3547c0
sudo yum install -y https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.rpm
OpenSUSE and SUSE(ARM64)SHA256: 2c78a254780be68d3294c2a485883320d427c0463906082481d532b2cd3547c0
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.1.1/grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana_12.1.1_16903967602_linux_arm64.rpm
Standalone Windows Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 1759d14b9d449827ac49e4db0ff540e1cc5012e19e6970c3472b5aa66510892f

Choose your Configuration Options

The Grafana backend has a number of configuration options defined in its config file (usually located at /etc/grafana/grafana.ini on Linux systems).

In this config file you can change things like the default admin password, HTTP port, Grafana database (SQLite, MySQL, Postgres), authentication options (Google, GitHub, LDAP, auth proxy) along with many other options.

Start your Grafana server. Login with your admin user (default admin/admin). Open the side menu (click the Grafana icon in the top menu), head to Data Sources, and add your data source.

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