---
layout: "grafana"
page_title: "Grafana: grafana_data_source"
sidebar_current: "docs-influxdb-resource-data-source"
description: |-
  The grafana_data_source resource allows a Grafana data source to be created.
---

# grafana\_data\_source

The data source resource allows a data source to created on a Grafana server.

## Example Usage

The required arguments for this resource vary depending on the type of data
source selected (via the `type` argument). The following example is for
InfluxDB. See
[Grafana's *Data Sources Guides*](http://docs.grafana.org/#data-sources-guides)
for more details on the supported data source types and the arguments they use.

```
resource "grafana_data_source" "metrics" {
  type          = "influxdb"
  name          = "myapp-metrics"
  url           = "http://influxdb.example.net:8086/"
  username      = "myapp"
  password      = "foobarbaz"
  database_name = "${influxdb_database.metrics.name}"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `type` - (Required) The data source type. Must be one of the data source
  keywords supported by the Grafana server.

* `name` - (Required) A unique name for the data source within the Grafana
  server.

* `url` - (Required) The URL for the data source. The type of URL required
  varies depending on the chosen data source type.

* `is_default` - (Optional) If true, the dashboard will be shown as the
  root page on the Grafana server. Only one dashboard on a server can be
  the default.

* `basic_auth_enabled` - (Optional) - If true, HTTP basic authentication will
  be used to make requests.

* `basic_auth_username` - (Required if `basic_auth_enabled` is true) The
  username to use for basic auth.

* `basic_auth_password` - (Required if `basic_auth_enabled` is true) The
  password to use for basic auth.

* `username` - (Required by some data source types) The username to use to
  authenticate to the data source.

* `password` - (Required by some data source types) The password to use to
  authenticate to the data source.

* `database_name` - (Required by some data source types) The name of the
  database to use on the selected data source server.

* `access_mode` - (Optional) The method by which the browser-based Grafana
  application will access the data source. The default is "proxy", which means
  that the application will make requests via a proxy endpoint on the Grafana
  server.

## Attributes Reference

The resource exports the following attributes:

* `id` - The opaque unique id assigned to the data source by the Grafana
  server.