community.grafana.grafana_annotations – send ansible events as annotations on charts to grafana over http api.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.grafana collection (version 1.2.3).

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_annotations.

Synopsis

  • This callback will report start, failed and stats events to Grafana as annotations (https://grafana.com)

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • whitelisting in configuration

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
grafana_api_key
string
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_api_key = None

env:GRAFANA_API_KEY
Grafana API key, allowing to authenticate when posting on the HTTP API. If not provided, grafana_login and grafana_password will be required.
grafana_dashboard_id
integer
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_dashboard_id = None

env:GRAFANA_DASHBOARD_ID
The grafana dashboard id where the annotation shall be created.
grafana_panel_ids
list / elements=string
Default:
[]
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_panel_ids = []

env:GRAFANA_PANEL_IDS
The grafana panel ids where the annotation shall be created. Give a single integer or a comma-separated list of integers.
grafana_password
string
Default:
"ansible"
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_password = ansible

env:GRAFANA_PASSWORD
Grafana password used for authentication. Ignored if grafana_api_key is provided.
grafana_url
string / required
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_url = None

env:GRAFANA_URL
Grafana annotations api URL
grafana_user
string
Default:
"ansible"
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
grafana_user = ansible

env:GRAFANA_USER
Grafana user used for authentication. Ignored if grafana_api_key is provided.
http_agent
string
Default:
"Ansible (grafana_annotations callback)"
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
http_agent = Ansible (grafana_annotations callback)

env:HTTP_AGENT
The HTTP 'User-agent' value to set in HTTP requets.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
ini entries:

[callback_grafana_annotations]
validate_grafana_certs = yes

[callback_grafana_annotations]
validate_certs = yes

env:GRAFANA_VALIDATE_CERT
validate the SSL certificate of the Grafana server. (For HTTPS url)

aliases: validate_grafana_certs

Authors

  • Rémi REY (@rrey)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/grafana/grafana_annotations_callback.html