Grafana Labs

Grafana is a multi-platform, open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application that allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics, logs, and traces, regardless of where they are stored.

In Grafana:

1. Retrieve the following information from Grafana Instance URL. e.g, https://boutique.grafana.net/
2. Create a Service Account using the steps mentioned in the article - Creating Service Account
3. Add a Token to the above Service Account using the steps mentioned in the article - Add Token to Service Account. Store the Token in a secure location as this is used for the integration in Relyance.
4. Retrieve the URL and Username for the Loki (Log Service) in Grafana you want to integrate with Relaynce. This can be located from Grafana Cloud> Data Sources > search and click on the Loki service.
5. Retrieve the URL and Username for the Tempo (Traces Service) in Grafana you want to integrate with Relaynce. This can be located from Grafana Cloud > Data Sources > search and click on the Tempo service.
6. Create an Access Policy and Token using the step mentions in the article - Create Access Policies and Tokens. Store the Access Policy Token in a secure location as this is used for the integration in Relyance.

In the Relyance AI application:

1. Login to your Relyance account.
2. Navigate to the Settings menu on the bottom left-hand side.
3. Select Integrations.
4. Click on the Vendor Integration tab.
5. Find the Grafana Labs integration card and click it to open its connections.
6. Under Authentication Method, choose Service Account.
7. Fill in the corresponding connection fields retrieved and generated in the previous section.
8. Select the Vendor Discovery checkbox if you wish Relyance also to detect vendors connected to Grafana. See more information here.
9. Select the Enable Data Inspection checkbox if you wish Relyance also to inspect the data. See more information here.

The Authentication step asks for:

• URL: required.
• Service Account Token: required; held as a secret.
• Loki URL (logs service): optional.
• Loki Username: optional.
• Loopback Period (in hours): required.
• Maximum Records to Sample: required.
• Tempo URL (traces service): optional.
• Tempo Username: optional.
• Access Policy: required; held as a secret.

11. Click Authenticate.
12. At this point, you should see Connected on the Grafana integration page and the following result on the Vendor Integrations page:
13. Congratulations, you are now connected to Grafana.

If the connection reports Connected but returns nothing

These are the ways this integration comes back empty without reporting an error. Generated from the integration catalog, so it tracks what the connection actually asks for.

1. A credential rotated at the vendor is not picked up here. Service Account Token and Access Policy are stored when you save the connection, so regenerating the value at the vendor breaks the next scan until it is re-pasted here. Recording the expiry on the connection means Relyance warns you before it lapses.
2. Check the address fields before suspecting the credentials. URL, Loki URL (logs service) and Tempo URL (traces service) identify which tenant, region or host to talk to. A wrong value there fails authentication and looks exactly like a bad secret.

Manage this integration with Terraform

Connections for this integration can be managed as code with the Relyance Terraform provider. Non-secret fields go in auth.params; secret fields go in auth.secrets_wo, which is write-only — never stored in Terraform state. Rotate secrets by bumping auth.secrets_wo_version.

resource "relyance_integration_connection" "grafana" {
  vendor = "grafana"
  name   = "<your connection name>"

  auth = {
    method = "service-account"
    params = {
      domain_url = "<domain_url>"
      loki_since = "1"
      loki_limit = "5000"
      data_storage_location = "us"
    }
    # Secret fields are write-only: sent to Relyance, never stored in state.
    secrets_wo = {
      service_account_token = var.grafana_service_account_token
      access_policy = var.grafana_access_policy
    }
    secrets_wo_version = 1
  }

  scans = { "data-inspection" = { enabled = true } }
}