Cannot manage to see users when connecting latest influxdb to Chronograf

[S0UL4]

Hello Guys,

I'm running both images and linked them with docker-compose.. however when i try to manage users through InfluxDB Admin panel in chronograf i always get this ..

Any idea please?

[sranka]

Hi @S0UL4 , use InfluxDB 2.x administration UI directly, chronograf InfluxDB administration requires InfluxDB 1.x

[S0UL4]

Hi @sranka , Thanks for your reply.

I used Chronograf because i'm integrating influxDB2 in a platform and i want each user to connect to InfluxDB using oAuth2 ..

[sranka]

You cannot administer InfluxDB v2 through chronograf, there are different APIs and domain objects in v2. You can restrict chronograf users to see the administration tab, only chronograf admin role can see the administration UI.

[S0UL4]

So there is no way to let users authentificate to InfluxDB2 with oAuth2 via my developed platform? because what i want is that each user have access to his own InfluxDB2 account without re-entering [email,pass] again.. i thought Chronograf would help me in that as it integrates oAuth2.. what if i switch to influxDB1.x ?

[sranka]

Chronograf OAuth2 is used to authenticate against chronograf, which then uses a preconfigured InfluxDB token (or username/password in case of InfluxDB v1) independently on the OAuth2 user. Chronograf is targeted to InfluxDB v1 and InfluxDB Enterprise, though it still works against InfluxDB v2. I guess that switching to v1 makes no real difference in your case. Some chronograf functionalities are disabled (InfluxDB administration) or require extra configuration in v2 (v2 buckets must be mapped to v1 databases+retention policies to use InfluxQL).

[S0UL4]

Thank you so much..

So even by using oAuth2 in chronograf and using a preconfigured InfluxDB token i think that users must exists already in the list of InfluxDB users right?

[sranka]

You can assign a default role to every new user. You can change it from member to viewer so that the new users can see dashboards and explore InfluxDB data. See https://docs.influxdata.com/chronograf/v1.9/administration/managing-chronograf-users/ .

[S0UL4]

@sranka can i assign the role to every new user through an env variable? because i'm using Docker-compose here..

[sranka]

You can't, you can however mount a pre-configured chronograf database with a BOLT_PATH env variable. Run chronograf --help to know more.