Chronograf configuration options

Chronograf is configured using the configuration file (/etc/default/chronograf) and environment variables. If you do not uncomment a configuration option, the system uses its default setting. The configuration settings in this document are set to their default settings. For more information, see Configure Chronograf.

• Usage
• Chronograf service options
  • InfluxDB connection options
  • Kapacitor connection options
  • TLS (Transport Layer Security) options
  • etcd options
  • Other service options
• Authentication options
  • General authentication options
  • GitHub-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options
  • Google-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options
  • Auth0-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options
  • Heroku-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options
  • Generic OAuth 2.0 authentication options

Usage

Start the Chronograf service, and include any options after chronograf, where [OPTIONS] are options separated by spaces:

chronograf [OPTIONS]

Linux examples

• To start chronograf without options:

sudo systemctl start chronograf

• To start chronograf and set options for develop mode and to disable reporting:

sudo systemctl start chronograf --develop --reporting-disabled

MacOS X examples

• To start chronograf without options:

chronograf

• To start chronograf and add shortcut options for develop mode and to disable reporting:

chronograf -d -r

Chronograf service options

--host=

The IP that the chronograf service listens on.

Default value: 0.0.0.0

Example: --host=0.0.0.0

Environment variable: $HOST

--port=

The port that the chronograf service listens on for insecure connections.

Default: 8888

Environment variable: $PORT

--bolt-path= | -b

The file path to the BoltDB file.

Default value: ./chronograf-v1.db

Environment variable: $BOLT_PATH

--canned-path= | -c

The path to the directory of canned dashboards files. Canned dashboards (also known as pre-created dashboards or application layouts) cannot be edited. They’re delivered with Chronograf and available depending on which Telegraf input plugins you have enabled.

Default value: /usr/share/chronograf/canned

Environment variable: $CANNED_PATH

--resources-path=

Path to directory of sources (.src files), Kapacitor connections (.kap files), organizations (.org files), and dashboards (.dashboard files).

Default value: /usr/share/chronograf/resources

Environment variable: $RESOURCES_PATH

--basepath= | -p

The URL path prefix under which all chronograf routes will be mounted.

Environment variable: $BASE_PATH

--status-feed-url=

URL of JSON feed to display as a news feed on the client Status page.

Default value: https://www.influxdata.com/feed/json

Environment variable: $STATUS_FEED_URL

--version | -v

Displays the version of the Chronograf service.

Example:

$ chronograf -v
2018/01/03 14:11:19 Chronograf 1.10.2 (git: b74ae387)

InfluxDB connection options

--influxdb-url

The location of your InfluxDB instance, including the protocol, IP address, and port.

Example: --influxdb-url http://localhost:8086

Environment variable: $INFLUXDB_URL

--influxdb-username

The [username] for your InfluxDB instance.

Environment variable: $INFLUXDB_USERNAME

--influxdb-password

The [password] for your InfluxDB instance.

Environment variable: $INFLUXDB_PASSWORD

--influxdb-org

InfluxDB 2.x or InfluxDB Cloud organization name.

Environment variable: $INFLUXDB_ORG

--influxdb-token

InfluxDB 2.x or InfluxDB Cloud authentication token.

Environment variable: $INFLUXDB_TOKEN

Kapacitor connection options

--kapacitor-url=

The location of your Kapacitor instance, including http://, IP address, and port.

Example: --kapacitor-url=http://0.0.0.0:9092.

Environment variable: $KAPACITOR_URL

--kapacitor-username=

The username for your Kapacitor instance.

Environment variable: $KAPACITOR_USERNAME

--kapacitor-password=

The password for your Kapacitor instance.

Environment variable: $KAPACITOR_PASSWORD

TLS (Transport Layer Security) options

See Configuring TLS (Transport Layer Security) and HTTPS for more information.

--cert=

The file path to PEM-encoded public key certificate.

Environment variable: $TLS_CERTIFICATE

--key=

The file path to private key associated with given certificate.

Environment variable: $TLS_PRIVATE_KEY

etcd options

--etcd-endpoints= | -e

List of etcd endpoints.

CLI example

## Single parameter
--etcd-endpoints=localhost:2379

## Multiple parameters
--etcd-endpoints=localhost:2379 \
--etcd-endpoints=192.168.1.61:2379 \
--etcd-endpoints=192.192.168.1.100:2379

Environment variable: $ETCD_ENDPOINTS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
ETCD_ENDPOINTS=localhost:2379

## Multiple parameters
ETCD_ENDPOINTS=localhost:2379,192.168.1.61:2379,192.192.168.1.100:2379

--etcd-username=

Username to log into etcd.

Environment variable: $ETCD_USERNAME

--etcd-password=

Password to log into etcd.

Environment variable: $ETCD_PASSWORD

--etcd-dial-timeout=

Total time to wait before timing out while connecting to etcd endpoints. 0 means no timeout. The default is 1s.

Environment variable: $ETCD_DIAL_TIMEOUT

--etcd-request-timeout=

Total time to wait before timing out an etcd view or update request. 0 means no timeout. The default is 1s.

Environment variable: $ETCD_REQUEST_TIMEOUT

--etcd-cert=

Path to etcd PEM-encoded TLS public key certificate.

Environment variable: $ETCD_CERTIFICATE

--etcd-key=

Path to private key associated with specified etcd certificate.

Environment variable: $ETCD_PRIVATE_KEY

--etcd-root-ca

Path to root CA certificate for TLS verification.

Environment variable: $ETCD_ROOT_CA

Other service options

--custom-auto-refresh

Add custom auto-refresh intervals to the list of available auto-refresh intervals in Chronograf dashboards. Provide a semi-colon-delimited list of key-value pairs where the key is the interval name that appears in the auto-refresh dropdown menu and the value is the auto-refresh interval in milliseconds.

Example: --custom-auto-refresh "500ms=500;1s=1000"

Environment variable: $CUSTOM_AUTO_REFRESH

--custom-link <display_name>:<link_address>

Custom link added to Chronograf User menu options. Useful for providing links to internal company resources for your Chronograf users. Can be used when any OAuth 2.0 authentication is enabled. To add another custom link, repeat the custom link option.

Example: --custom-link InfluxData:http://www.influxdata.com/

--develop | -d

Run the chronograf service in developer mode.

--help | -h

Displays the command line help for chronograf.

--host-page-disabled | -H

Disables rendering and serving of the Hosts List page (/sources/$sourceId/hosts).

Environment variable: $HOST_PAGE_DISABLED

--log-level= | -l

Set the logging level.

Valid values: debug | info | error

Default value: info

Example: --log-level=debug

Environment variable: $LOG_LEVEL

--reporting-disabled | -r

Disables reporting of usage statistics. Usage statistics reported once every 24 hours include: OS, arch, version, cluster_id, and uptime.

Environment variable: $REPORTING_DISABLED

Authentication options

General authentication options

--auth-duration=

The total duration (in hours) of cookie life for authentication.

Default value: 720h

Authentication expires on browser close when --auth-duration=0.

Environment variable: $AUTH_DURATION

--inactivity-duration=

The duration that a token is valid without any new activity.

Default value: 5m

Environment variable: $INACTIVITY_DURATION

--public-url=

The public URL required to access Chronograf using a web browser. For example, if you access Chronograf using the default URL, the public URL value would be http://localhost:8888. Required for Google OAuth 2.0 authentication. Used for Auth0 and some generic OAuth 2.0 authentication providers.

Environment variable: $PUBLIC_URL

--token-secret= | -t

The secret for signing tokens.

Environment variable: $TOKEN_SECRET

GitHub-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options

See Configuring GitHub authentication for more information.

--github-url

Required if using Github Enterprise
GitHub base URL. Default is https://github.com.

Environment variable: $GH_URL

--github-client-id | -i

The GitHub client ID value for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $GH_CLIENT_ID

--github-client-secret | -s

The GitHub Client Secret value for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $GH_CLIENT_SECRET

--github-organization | -o

[Optional] Specify a GitHub organization membership required for a user.

CLI example

## Single parameter
--github-organization=org1

## Multiple parameters
--github-organization=org1 \
--github-organization=org2 \
--github-organization=org3

Environment variable: $GH_ORGS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
GH_ORGS=org1

## Multiple parameters
GH_ORGS=org1,org2,org3

Google-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options

See Configuring Google authentication for more information.

--google-client-id=

The Google Client ID value required for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID

--google-client-secret=

The Google Client Secret value required for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET

--google-domains=

[Optional] Restricts authorization to users from specified Google email domains.

CLI example

## Single parameter
--google-domains=delorean.com

## Multiple parameters
--google-domains=delorean.com \
--google-domains=savetheclocktower.com

Environment variable: $GOOGLE_DOMAINS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
GOOGLE_DOMAINS=delorean.com

## Multiple parameters
GOOGLE_DOMAINS=delorean.com,savetheclocktower.com

Auth0-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options

See Configuring Auth0 authentication for more information.

--auth0-domain=

The subdomain of your Auth0 client; available on the configuration page for your Auth0 client.

Example: https://myauth0client.auth0.com

Environment variable: $AUTH0_DOMAIN

--auth0-client-id=

The Auth0 Client ID value required for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $AUTH0_CLIENT_ID

--auth0-client-secret=

The Auth0 Client Secret value required for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET

--auth0-organizations=

[Optional] The Auth0 organization membership required to access Chronograf. Organizations are set using an “organization” key in the user’s app_metadata. Lists are comma-separated and are only available when using environment variables.

CLI example

## Single parameter
--auth0-organizations=org1

## Multiple parameters
--auth0-organizations=org1 \
--auth0-organizations=org2 \
--auth0-organizations=org3

Environment variable: $AUTH0_ORGS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
AUTH0_ORGS=org1

## Multiple parameters
AUTH0_ORGS=org1,org2,org3

Heroku-specific OAuth 2.0 authentication options

See Configuring Heroku authentication for more information.

--heroku-client-id=

The Heroku Client ID for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $HEROKU_CLIENT_ID

--heroku-secret=

The Heroku Secret for OAuth 2.0 support.

Environment variable: $HEROKU_SECRET

--heroku-organization=

The Heroku organization memberships required for access to Chronograf.

CLI example

## Single parameter
--heroku-organization=org1

## Multiple parameters
--heroku-organization=org1 \
--heroku-organization=org2 \
--heroku-organization=org3

Environment variable: $HEROKU_ORGS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
HEROKU_ORGS=org1

## Multiple parameters
HEROKU_ORGS=org1,org2,org3

Generic OAuth 2.0 authentication options

See Configure OAuth 2.0 for more information.

--generic-name=

The generic OAuth 2.0 name presented on the login page.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_NAME

--generic-client-id=

The generic OAuth 2.0 Client ID value. Can be used for a custom OAuth 2.0 service.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_CLIENT_ID

--generic-client-secret=

The generic OAuth 2.0 Client Secret value.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_CLIENT_SECRET

--generic-scopes=

The scopes requested by provider of web client.

Default value: user:email

CLI example

## Single parameter
--generic-scopes=api

## Multiple parameters
--generic-scopes=api \
--generic-scopes=openid \
--generic-scopes=read_user

Environment variable: $GENERIC_SCOPES

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
GENERIC_SCOPES=api

## Multiple parameters
GENERIC_SCOPES=api,openid,read_user

--generic-domains=

The email domain required for user email addresses.

Example: --generic-domains=example.com

CLI example

## Single parameter
--generic-domains=delorean.com

## Multiple parameters
--generic-domains=delorean.com \
--generic-domains=savetheclocktower.com

Environment variable: $GENERIC_DOMAINS

Environment variable example

## Single parameter
GENERIC_DOMAINS=delorean.com

## Multiple parameters
GENERIC_DOMAINS=delorean.com,savetheclocktower.com

--generic-auth-url

The authorization endpoint URL for the OAuth 2.0 provider.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_AUTH_URL

--generic-token-url

The token endpoint URL for the OAuth 2.0 provider.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_TOKEN_URL

--generic-api-url

The URL that returns OpenID UserInfo-compatible information.

Environment variable: $GENERIC_API_URL

--oauth-no-pkce

Disable OAuth PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange).

Environment variable: $OAUTH_NO_PKCE