GRAFANA(1)

💅 GRAFANA(1) — like, the actual manual page, bestie

okay so real talk: this is the GRAFANA(1) page from the User Commands section of your man pages, and it's all about grafana-cli, the command line administration tool for the Grafana metrics dashboard and graph editor. yes, the thing you poke at in a terminal instead of clicking around the UI. we love a lowkey powerful glow-up. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

grafana-cli — command line administration for the Grafana metrics dashboard and graph editor

literally what it says on the tin, no cap.

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

💖 NAME:

grafana-cli

🦋 USAGE:

grafana-cli [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

so yeah — global options first, then a command, then that command's own options, then whatever arguments it eats. order matters, bestie. 🙈

👑 COMMANDS:

• plugins — manage plugins for grafana. that's the whole vibe. 🔥
• admin — Grafana admin commands. main character energy only. 💅
• help, h — shows you a list of commands, or help for one (1) command if you ask nicely 🫶

⭐ GLOBAL OPTIONS:

• --pluginsDir value — path to the Grafana plugin directory. default is "/var/lib/grafana/plugins" and it also reads [$GF_PLUGIN_DIR]. your plugin stash lives here 🍓
• --repo value — URL to the plugin repository. default is "https://grafana.com/api/plugins", and the env var is [$GF_PLUGIN_REPO] 🧚
• --pluginUrl value — full url to the plugin zip file, instead of downloading the plugin from grafana.com/api. env var [$GF_PLUGIN_URL] 🌈
• --insecure — skip TLS verification (insecure) — default: false. yes bestie it literally puts "insecure" in the name, it's giving "I know what I'm doing" and also "I might regret this" 💀
• --debug — enable debug logging, default: false. for when you need to see everything 🔍
• --configOverrides value — configuration options to override defaults as a string. e.g. cfg:default.paths.log=/dev/null — tiny string, big power move ✨
• --homepath value — path to Grafana install/home path; defaults to the working directory 🏠
• --config value — path to config file 📄
• --help, -h — show help 🫶
• --version, -v — print the version 🎀

⚠️ tiny reminder that --insecure is literally flagging itself as insecure — skip TLS verification only when you actually mean it, okay? 🙈

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• Additional documentation for grafana-cli is available on-line at http://docs.grafana.org/administration/cli/
• The full documentation for Grafana is available on-line at http://docs.grafana.org/

go read the docs, iykyk 📚💜

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and that's the page!! brought to you by Grafana cli version 12.4.2, dated March 2026, filed under GRAFANA(1) — slay, go manage some plugins bestie 💅✨