Description:

How to reset Grafana admin password using grafana-cli.



Steps:

1. Identify the grafana pod and ssh into it:

[gjonas@master01]$ oc -n openmonitoring get pods
NAME               READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
grafana-6-r5dth    1/1     Running     0          6m45s

[gjonas@master01]$ oc rsh grafana-6-r5dth 
/usr/share/grafana $


2. Run the grafana-cli command to reset the admin password:

# In this example we reset the password back to the default value of "admin"
/usr/share/grafana $ grafana-cli admin reset-admin-password admin
INFO[08-04|16:13:53] Connecting to DB                         logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3
INFO[08-04|16:13:53] Starting DB migration                    logger=migrator

Admin password changed successfully ✔


3. You will be prompted to set a new admin password after successfully logging into the Grafana GUI with the new password



Result:

The Grafana admin password will be reset and can be updated after logging into the Grafana GUI.