====Grafana Addon====

The **Grafana** addon allows you to use your ARDI data inside the Grafana package, allowing you to create beautiful charts and dashboards based on ARDI assets and their properties.

Since ARDI and Grafana communicate with each-other, you'll need to install extensions for both products - an //addon// for ARDI, and a //plugin// for Grafana.

There are four steps required to get ARDI data in Grafana....

1) [[https://grafana.com/grafana/download?edition=oss|Install Grafana]] (either Enterprise or OSS) on your chosen server. This may be installed on your ARDI server system. \\

2) [[Install the Grafana addon|Install the ARDI addon]] to ARDI. \\

3) [[Install the ARDI plugin|Install the Plugin]] in Grafana. \\

4) [[Setup the Data Source|Setup the Data Source]] \\

Once you've completed these steps, you should be able to [[Query ARDI Data|query ARDI data]] from Grafana.

You might want to set up Grafana to [[daemon|start up with your computer]].