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Nightly Builds

1. Choose an edition

2. Choose a version

EditionGrafana OSS
Version12.4.2
LicenseAGPLv3
Release DateMarch 25, 2026

3. Choose your platform & installation method

Standalone MacOS/Darwin Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 647538ae76a1268debb71773a1233af3647d61e912e05fe93455131cc77e50c4
Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64)SHA256: 86ab36f6f1e61dc84ef6536521af0c8cbacca153f2bf35f76279a8c27e884353
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv6)SHA256: cf618f8d16efff5750a306a498ceaeb90e8f889e806e14cd83b3636aef7652a5
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana-rpi_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-6.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana-rpi_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-6.deb
Ubuntu and Debian(ARMv7)SHA256: 64ca966d5443995afce5e5567e073b85572ea42ee727990c5200fcead4f657f0
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1 musl
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-7.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-7.deb
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 28f37f0952e923e90aed02c7d71cef7443705a9a37ba5439b76d7f72aeb1a63f
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv6)SHA256: a051c6dd32c2c6ea9c178e79a863ddb933660fd472d06358cef5c0768ea3d348
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-6.tar.gz
Standalone Linux Binaries(ARMv7)SHA256: e1a0fa9ff57efb1367ec26e32e884f800297ac5af55d0fd8a501278b1c0ecdf0
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm-7.tar.gz
Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(ARM64)SHA256: e1c6f29e8a8dbb7f0a37cb529045d86154995b2d25db78d3e60e66891cbd424f
sudo yum install -y https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.rpm
OpenSUSE and SUSE(ARM64)SHA256: e1c6f29e8a8dbb7f0a37cb529045d86154995b2d25db78d3e60e66891cbd424f
wget https://dl.grafana.com/grafana/release/12.4.2/grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana_12.4.2_23531306697_linux_arm64.rpm
Standalone Windows Binaries(ARM64)SHA256: 75ca9012ce840239255014a2aadab9350e21cb7345b9f118103e37336105782d

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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