This video demonstrates how to link Grafana to InfluxDB 1.8. This version of InfluxDB has no dashboard utility and I use a PuTTY terminal to connect and grab the setting required. I then use a built in SQL Query tool in Grafana to pull data from the database.
Video Content
0:00 Into
0:20 Overview of connectivity options
0:54 Finding database name
0:13 Adding data source to Grafana
2:19 Adding dashboard to Grafana
2:40 Using query to add data to trend
3:35 Duplicating a query