Changing the Default Admin Password in Docker-Based Deployment of PMM2

January 15, 2020

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Peter Zaitsev

Monitoring

Percona Software

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April 2021 Update:

From Percona Monitoring and Management 2.27, the procedure is now simplified and it is possible by running:

docker exec pmm-server change-admin-password &lt;new_password&gt;

1	docker exec pmm-server change-admin-password <new_password>

default password pmm2 If you’re automating Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM) deployment with docker, you may want to set a different admin user password upon installation instead of being required to change it upon first login. Here is how you can do it.

After following the PMM2 Docker Installation Instructions, you can run this command:

docker exec -t pmm-server bash -c 'grafana-cli --homepath /usr/share/grafana --configOverrides cfg:default.paths.data=/srv/grafana admin reset-admin-password newpass'

1	docker exec -t pmm-server bash -c 'grafana-cli --homepath /usr/share/grafana --configOverrides cfg:default.paths.data=/srv/grafana admin reset-admin-password newpass'

Where “newpass” is your new desired password and “pmm-server” is the container name you used to deploy PMM, you should see the following output indicating the password was changed successfully:

INFO[01-05|22:01:15] Connecting to DB                         logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3<br>INFO[01-05|22:01:15] Starting DB migration                    logger=migrator<br><br>Admin password changed successfully ✔<br>

1	INFO[01-05\|22:01:15] Connecting to DB logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3<br>INFO[01-05\|22:01:15] Starting DB migration logger=migrator<br><br>Admin password changed successfully ✔<br>