
* Use relative aliases for all non-current Grafana aliases Prevents non-latest documentation "stealing" the page away from latest and through permanent redirects for latest pages that no longer exist. The redirected pages are indexed by search engines but our robots.txt forbids them crawling the non-latest page. Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> * Remove aliases from shared pages Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> * Rewrite all current latest aliases to be next Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> * Fix typo in latest alias Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> * Remove all current page aliases find docs/sources -type f -name '*.md' -exec sed -z -i 's#\n *- /docs/grafana/next/[^\n]*\n#\n#' {} \; find docs/sources -type f -name '*.md' -exec sed -Ez -i 's#\n((aliases:\n *-)|aliases:\n)#\n\2#' {} \; Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> * Prettier Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com> Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
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Install on Windows
You can either download the Windows installer package or a standalone Windows binary file.
Read [Upgrading Grafana]({{< relref "../../upgrade-grafana/" >}}) for tips and guidance on updating an existing installation.
- Navigate to Download Grafana.
- Select a Grafana version you want to install.
- The most recent Grafana version is selected by default.
- The Version field displays only finished releases. If you want to install a beta version, click Nightly Builds and then select a version.
- Select an Edition.
- Enterprise - Recommended download. Functionally identical to the open source version, but includes features you can unlock with a license if you so choose.
- Open Source - Functionally identical to the enterprise version, but you will need to download the enterprise version if you want enterprise features.
- Click Windows.
You can either use the Windows installer or you can install a standalone Windows binary.
Install with Windows installer (recommended)
- Click Download the installer.
- Open and run the installer.
To run Grafana, open your browser and go to the Grafana port (http://localhost:3000/ is default) and then follow the instructions in [Getting Started]({{< relref "../../../getting-started/build-first-dashboard/" >}}).
Install standalone Windows binary
-
Click Download the zip file. Important: After you've downloaded the zip file and before extracting it, make sure to open the properties for that file (right-click Properties) and select the
unblock
check box and then clickOk
. -
Extract this folder to anywhere you want Grafana to run from.
-
Start Grafana by executing
grafana-server.exe
, located in thebin
directory, preferably from the command line. If you want to run Grafana as a Windows service, then download NSSM. It is very easy to add Grafana as a Windows service using that tool.
To run Grafana, open your browser and go to the Grafana port (http://localhost:3000/ is default) and then follow the instructions in [Getting Started]({{< relref "../../../getting-started/build-first-dashboard/" >}}).
Note: The default Grafana port is
3000
. This port might require extra permissions on Windows. If it does not appear in the default port, you can try changing to a different port.
- Go into the
conf
directory and copysample.ini
tocustom.ini
. Note: You should editcustom.ini
, neverdefaults.ini
.- Edit
custom.ini
and uncomment thehttp_port
configuration option (;
is the comment character in ini files) and change it to something like8080
or similar. That port should not require extra Windows privileges. Read more about the [configuration options]({{< relref "../../configure-grafana/" >}}).