Data does not persist between chronograf docker container restarts

[influxdata]

Data does not persist between chronograf docker container restarts

[deweller]

I was able to workaround this by setting the BOLT_PATH environment variable to "/var/lib/chronograf/chronograf-v1-.db".

Was the default changed?

[mcfedr]

Seems the default wasnt set, and the file is stored as /chronograf-v1.db

I'm having this issue using the non alpine image

[goller]

Hi @deweller , @mcfedr, thanks for writing in!

The workaround to set BOLT_PATH to /var/lib/chronograf and mount a host directory to /var/lib/chronograf is the way to do this now.

I'm thinking changing the default BOLT_PATH to /var/lib/chronograf is the way to go. What do you think?

[deweller]

Changing the BOLT_PATH default to /var/lib/chronograf makes sense to me. That would be consistent with the docker image documentation.

[mcfedr]

Definitely the way to go. Especially as the documentation would suggest that's the case already, and all the other influx images are similarly setup

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[n0madic]

Since by default the chronograf creates a BoltDB base in the current directory, you just need to add it to the Dockerfile:
WORKDIR /var/lib/chronograf

[jsternberg]

@goller does the environment variable or the command line option take priority? I would say add it as an environment variable if the command line option takes priority and add it as a command line option if the environment variable takes priority (lowest priority is where we want to put it).

We'll have a fix for this uploaded by tomorrow. For now, just set the BOLT_PATH environment variable manually.