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page_title: Building from source page_description: Building from source Grafana.
page_keywords: grafana, build, contribute, documentation
Building from source
If you have any idea for an improvement or found a bug do not hesitate to open an issue. And if you have time clone the grafana repository and submit a pull request and help me make Grafana the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!
Grafana uses nodejs and grunt as a build system for javascript, less compilation, and unit tests.
Get started
- Install nodejs.
- npm install -g grunt-cli
- npm install (in grafana repository root)
run development server
- grunt server
run less & jshint checks
- grunt
run unit tests
- grunt test
create optimized, minified build
- grunt build (or grunt release to get zip/tar files)
Create a pull requests
Before or after your create a pull requests, sign the contributor license aggrement.