mkdir: can't create directory '/var/lib/grafana/plugins': Permission denied

[coding-to-music]

I am attempting this tutorial: https://github.com/questdb/questdb-slack-grafana-alerts

My repo is here: https://github.com/coding-to-music/questdb-slack-grafana-alerts

When I run docker-compose up I get these messages:

Errors and Messages

Attaching to grafana_alerts, questdb_alerts
grafana_alerts | mkdir: can't create directory '/var/lib/grafana/plugins': Permission denied
grafana_alerts | GF_PATHS_DATA='/var/lib/grafana' is not writable.
grafana_alerts | You may have issues with file permissions, more information here: http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migrate-to-v51-or-later

Steps attempted to fix

When I run this

id -u
1000

I see that I am user 1000, so I tried that in addition to user 472

Per the recommendation of this page: http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migrate-to-v51-or-later

I have added this line to the docker-compose.yml

user: "472"

I have attempted to remove the directory /var/lib/grafana and also change it's ownership

I have tried changing the target directory ownership

and run docker-compose up as that user specified in the grafana-->user string

sudo chown 472:472 /var/lib/grafana 
sudo chown 472:472 /var/lib/grafana/plugins 

sudo chown 1000:1000 /var/lib/grafana 
sudo chown 1000:1000 /var/lib/grafana/plugins 

Similar problem reports:

https://community.grafana.com/t/gf-paths-data-var-lib-grafana-is-not-writable/31369

cfbarbero/tick-grafana-docker#1

Any assistance is appreciated

[Artmorse]

The easiest way to fix your issue is to set the volume with a docker volume, I have created the PR #5.