page_title: Plugin installation page_description: Plugin installation for Grafana
The easiest way to install plugins is by using the CLI tool grafana-cli which is bundled with grafana.
On Linux systems the grafana-cli will assume that the grafana plugin directory is "/var/lib/grafana/plugins". Its possible to override the directory which grafana-cli will operate on by specifing the --path flag. On Windows systems this parameter have to be specified for every call.
grafana-cli list-remove
grafana-cli install <plugin-id>
grafana-cli ls
grafana-cli upgrade-all
grafana-cli upgrade <plugin-id>
grafana-cli remove <plugin-id>