Grafana keeps restarting after I enabled the metrics module

Posted by privacylord

Hey, just enabled metrics from the App Store and Grafana is stuck in a restart loop. Logs show "mkdir: cant create directory /var/lib/grafana/plugins: Permission denied" over and over. Running SparkBox on a Hostinger VPS, dashboard version 1.2.5. What do I do?

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tomspark wrote:

Grafana runs as uid 472 and needs a writable data directory. The grafana-init container should have chown'd /var/lib/grafana before Grafana started, but it looks like it didn't run or failed silently. Quick fix: docker compose -p sparkbox -f /opt/sparkbox/modules/metrics/docker-compose.yml down && sudo chown -R 472:0 /opt/sparkbox/modules/metrics/data/grafana && SBROOT=/opt/sparkbox docker compose --env-file /opt/sparkbox/.env -p sparkbox -f /opt/sparkbox/modules/metrics/docker-compose.yml up -d If you're on a VPS without sudo, just drop the sudo — you're probably already root. Grafana should stay up this time. Let me know if it keeps looping.