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Location of grafana.ini file in windows system

I am working with Grafana V10.1.5 running on windows PC.

I am trying to locate grafana.ini file in windows PC but its no where to be found. The installed location of grafana in my PC is "C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana" though same thing can be found in linux PC without any hassle.

Although I have found two ".ini" file, one by the name "default.ini" other by the name "sample.ini". Both these files are located at "C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\conf".

.ini files

Is one of these two is "grafana.ini" file? If i want to configure grafana for "smtp", which one of these i should choose because content of both files is exactly the same except "sample.ini" have every thing commented out while "default.ini" have everything uncommented?

Solution

  • There is no grafana.ini on windows. There might be custom.ini, that assumes the same role as grafana.ini on *nix versions, but only if you created it.

    Please reference official documentation on matters of installing on Windows.

    Open the conf directory and copy sample.ini to custom.ini.

    Note: You should edit custom.ini, never defaults.ini.

    ; is the comment character in ini files.