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13.0.1+security-01 available!Nightly Builds

1. Choose an edition

2. Choose a version

EditionGrafana OSS
Version12.2.1
LicenseAGPLv3
Release DateOctober 21, 2025

3. Choose your platform & installation method

Standalone MacOS/Darwin Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 67a99fd1e42bbf56171b8f4b095d24e540f76381c7e770151f259335954fb645
Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64)SHA256: 4e0d958de301bbc64bd208910c208c460bda32a60a7442b3492f1067a3bf0474
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv6)SHA256: 14534fca392e8299b11da06ecb5d972692299ce26d22d54fa3a3004aff8dce15
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana-rpi_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-6.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-rpi_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-6.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv7)SHA256: 40aeb1591d8051a82931626cf701483d0bce7de259259bc18b8d2af319f1e3f9
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-7.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-7.deb
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 6d64c3fe3699b3bb2e928314bc2a968520909da47eaabc755b867560e3a573df
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv6)SHA256: 2c4276c9148a85e8179b821ca97e88bbf0dbdcb2f766cae0e4f2b12540a63f0b
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv7)SHA256: b353dede4ad75ac873adc86a72b543b1dd523949c9888a3749e0f4ead6f04a58
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(ARM64)SHA256: 6ebc7143c14c7ea286dce08215b48863a21cf28671b8091c2ae31d9d4a63bcd7
sudo yum install -y https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.rpm
OpenSUSE and SUSE(ARM64)SHA256: 6ebc7143c14c7ea286dce08215b48863a21cf28671b8091c2ae31d9d4a63bcd7
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.2.1/grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana_12.2.1_18655849634_linux_arm64.rpm
Standalone Windows Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 3b1da7b1176b9f97d5549d7516e3dee5f1a2cde8e750e3deb0fe163ff04279fc

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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