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Download Grafana

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1. Choose an edition

2. Choose a version

EditionGrafana OSS
Version12.4.0
LicenseAGPLv3
Release DateFebruary 24, 2026

3. Choose your platform & installation method

Standalone MacOS/Darwin Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: f74572e4cb09e8bb7b38ffa5008144d6b3f8bc0d9ef29cfa3cfc9eb64ceaa18b
Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64)SHA256: 554ed9e60b86ff6ed6a1ed06c227acf8565f5290f6fa977ee9ce01e991be9606
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv6)SHA256: ed1cde3d3cc73c71eadfd544807000199ab7aa4b62fb8c160b64b8b06a5d24da
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana-rpi_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-6.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-rpi_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-6.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv7)SHA256: e98a9250e57d2fcb13b139ef82d60e43c042b9e4a8a427b4247cbc9f242a9a55
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-7.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-7.deb
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 5aa01b585f4d21b65c35f98431263ebf0b0ae0b2192643b66e43ee03939b8900
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv6)SHA256: e57adf9b645a10e4b9ab0d312f7722a96fc36a34da051fd40d2eaea5188dcb94
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv7)SHA256: efa3aff308efdd34c519ff8e6b4ffc39b0edfe8a36ecfcb7e3f668aab0d3242d
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(ARM64)SHA256: 32e0460cc097e33efb6b0a5b756664729c8130761828bccf2133fe3724f26d59
sudo yum install -y https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.rpm
OpenSUSE and SUSE(ARM64)SHA256: 32e0460cc097e33efb6b0a5b756664729c8130761828bccf2133fe3724f26d59
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.0/grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana_12.4.0_22325204712_linux_arm64.rpm
Standalone Windows Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 4221026451bf3ca73595a5b2a8f47c0e8ca635fe2746a041539f6eb4df0b0a37

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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