Use AWS data source configuration to add Amazon Athena as a data source - Amazon Managed Grafana
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Use AWS data source configuration to add Amazon Athena as a data source

Prerequisites

  • The AWS CLI is installed and configured in your environment.

  • You have access to Athena from your account.

To use AWS data source configuration, first go to the Amazon Managed Grafana console to enable service-managed IAM roles that grant the workspace the IAM policies necessary to read the Athena resources in your account or in your entire organizational units. Then you use the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace console to add Athena as a data source.

To use AWS data source configuration to add Athena as a data source

  1. Ensure that your user role is admin or editor.

  2. Select the workspace that you want to work on from the Amazon Managed Grafana console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/grafana/.

  3. If you didn't choose to use service-managed permissions for this workspace when you created it, then change from using customer-managed permissions to use service-managed permissions to ensure that the proper IAM roles and policies are enabled for using the AWS data source configuration option in the Grafana workspace console. To do so, choose the edit icon by IAM role and then choose Service managed, Save changes. For more information, see Amazon Managed Grafana permissions and policies for AWS data sources.

  4. Choose the Data sources tab. Then select the check box for Amazon Athena, and choose Actions, Enable service-managed policy.

  5. Choose the Data sources tab again, and then choose Configure in Grafana in the Amazon Athena row.

  6. Sign into the Grafana workspace console using IAM Identity Center if necessary. The user should have Athena access policy attached to the user/role in order to have access to Athena data source. See AWS managed policy: AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess for more info.

  7. In the left navigation bar in the Grafana workspace console, choose the lower AWS icon (there are two) and then choose Athena from Data sources menu.

  8. Select the default Region that you want the Athena data source to query from, and then select the accounts that you want, and then choose Add data source.

  9. Follow the steps to configure Athena Details in Athena Details settings

Athena Details settings

Configure Athena Details settings

  1. In Connection Details menu, select the authentication provider (recommended: Workspace IAM Role).

  2. Select your targeted Athena data source where you have your Athena account with. If you do not select any data source, there is a default data source in the drop-down.

    To create a new Athena account, follow the instructions at Getting started with Athena

  3. Select your targeted Athena database in the data source selected above.

  4. Select the Workgroup. Primary is by default.

  5. If your workgroup doesn't have an output location configured already, specify an S3 bucket and folder to use for query results. For example, s3://grafana-athena-plugin-test-data/query-result-output/

  6. Select Save & Test.