Enable plugin by default

[nabokihms]

Describe the bug We deploy Grafana as a stateless service on top of Kubernetes clusters. Users can customize enabled plugins using Grafana GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable. The problem we faced is that the Zabbix datasource requires enabling on every Grafana restart.

Regarding everything above, I have two questions:

1. How can I avoid this behavior? Can I make the plugin enabled by default somehow?
2. What is the reason behind this Enable button (I'm just curious)?

Expected behavior The plugin works from the start.

Screenshots The plugin requires manual actions to make it work.

Software versions

Grafana	Zabbix	Grafana-Zabbix Plugin
8.2.3	???	4.2.6

[alexanderzobnin]

Hi! Yes, this is tricky thing, I'll check out Grafana backlog to see if there's any plan to fix it somehow.

[vicmunoz]

You can enable the plugin with Grafana Provisioning feature (https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/)

Just set file /etc/grafana/provisioning/plugins/zabbix.yaml with below content:

apiVersion: 1
apps:
  - type: alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app
    disabled: false

[dragoangel]

Yep, need use new sidecars to get this working