Unable to connect to Redis Datasource via Grafana Cloud

[TheOldMan2000]

Unable to connect to Redis Datasource via Grafana Cloud

[slorello89]

Hi @TheOldMan2000 - I'm taking over maintenance of this plugin - so forgive me if I'm missing some critical context here.

This sounds like your trying to connect to your Redis instance (on your 48 core 6GB Centos machines) from your Grafana cloud account.

I might be missing something here, but I don't think your VPS and your free grafana instance are going to run on the same machine. So trying to connect via localhost:6379/127.0.0.1:6379 (or for that matter a unix socket) simply isn't going to work. Now if you installed Grafana on your VPS and ran it from there, sure that should work as they would be on the same server. But as it stands you would need either a DNS name or IP address that the plugin can reach out to in order to connect to Redis.

[TheOldMan2000]

Hello @slorello89

Thank you for the suggestions. I’m unsure but I assumed it would work because Grafana Agent was running on the same VPS, and I have no problem at all with the other Redis plugin for Grafana Cloud, as seen in the image above.

[slorello89]

Hi @TheOldMan2000 - Sorry for the delayed response, I looked into it wrt the grafana agent, I don't see any indication that the Grafana Agent can use this plugin (unless I'm dramatically wrong about something - if so please feel free to correct me), so you would need to use the external-IP/hostname for your Redis instance from Grafana Cloud in order to access it. Accessing Redis on localhost:6379 from Grafana Cloud will not work since it's not there.

Connect to the real host/ip and make sure your firewall is opened up and it should just work.