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community.grafana.grafana_plugin – Manage Grafana plugins via grafana-cli

Note

This plugin is part of the community.grafana collection (version 1.3.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.grafana.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.grafana.grafana_plugin.

Synopsis

• Install and remove Grafana plugins.

• See https://grafana.com/docs/plugins/installation/ for upstream documentation.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
grafana_plugin_url string	Full URL to the plugin zip file instead of downloading the file from https://grafana.com/api/plugins. Requires grafana 4.6.x or later.
grafana_plugins_dir string	Directory where the Grafana plugin will be installed. If omitted, defaults to /var/lib/grafana/plugins.
grafana_repo string	URL to the Grafana plugin repository. If omitted, grafana-cli will use the default value: https://grafana.com/api/plugins.
name string / required	Name of the plugin.
state string	Whether the plugin should be installed. Choices: present ← (default) absent
version string	Version of the plugin to install. Defaults to latest.

Examples

---
- name: Install/update Grafana piechart panel plugin
  community.grafana.grafana_plugin:
    name: grafana-piechart-panel
    version: latest
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
version string	version of the installed/removed/updated plugin. Returned: always

Authors

• Thierry Sallé (@seuf)