README.md

## Must be run behind a CNAP/firewall

# To Run
```bash
# Download the tarball from the Iron Bank repository and navigate to the 
# download directory. Run the following commands to run the grafana container
# (using grafana.tar.gz as example tarball name):
podman load -i grafana.tar.gz
podman container run -p 3000:3000 grafana 
```

Grafana is an open source observability platform for monitoring and observability. 
It provides an analytics and monitoring solution for Istio. 

The Enterprise Edition includes all the features of the Open Source Edition. 
All open source functionality can be used free with the option to upgrade to 
the full paid Enterprise feature set, including support for Enterprise plugins.

The Grafana GitHub repository is located here for reference:

https://github.com/grafana/grafana

You must have Istio installed in your cluster in order to utilize Grafana. 
If not enabled in your chosen configuration profile, enable the Grafana 
addon --set values.grafana.enabled=true option. 

The Grafana container is exposed on port 3000.

The container user `grafana` has the ID 472.

## Notes
Refer to the following documentation for getting started with Grafana:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/guides/getting_started/

Refer to the following documentation for activating a Grafana Enterprise license:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/enterprise/license/activate-license/