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Download Grafana

13.1.0 available!Nightly Builds

1. Choose an edition

2. Choose a version

EditionGrafana OSS
Version12.2.0
LicenseAGPLv3
Release DateSeptember 23, 2025

3. Choose your platform & installation method

Standalone MacOS/Darwin Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 59dd38e3e616bab0f84d4f75ddb153b13bc7b3a18eade89c63d5843bbed973b1
Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64)SHA256: b9e87eba68339a6e97a309fe35663db6ae4979193b4e5e1ffb80344af6b39fb8
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv6)SHA256: 3cfa3990265fe298bead4bdb3c186ba367e5b72b0398eaa4673b74ce090ce3e4
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana-rpi_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-6.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-rpi_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-6.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv7)SHA256: 9b1adaeb1541b1aa43af174705b9420d026aea7764dde9087104018474c4e923
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-7.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-7.deb
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: ef84a75b6888e4674e3d2a21ae586cda61999ec202298e855c5de71fd242eb35
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv6)SHA256: 2858bd8c6c84a7698cc3af3e489cb0f1f902214c0d8862f949da17920c73a80e
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv7)SHA256: 5e43bdcde006de7a32a0077ea145c9cc09a8d1309df8c5447e18d2751bf41d9d
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(ARM64)SHA256: f2d71e3b0f07b1a3a463627a667edfd17bcabf4b7a1d77b5cfdd68a9d26186ea
sudo yum install -y https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.rpm
OpenSUSE and SUSE(ARM64)SHA256: f2d71e3b0f07b1a3a463627a667edfd17bcabf4b7a1d77b5cfdd68a9d26186ea
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.0/grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana_12.2.0_17949786146_linux_arm64.rpm
Standalone Windows Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 0024a152e0d0b875b4a0f469a235d0015228c92742c6e8507f1df3e38edea148

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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