# Node-red & Grafana interaction

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-grafana-interaction/46723>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [5 June 2021 08:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-grafana-interaction/46723 "2021-06-05T08:50:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lupin\_III](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/lupin_iii/32/67650_2.png) [@Lupin\_III](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Lupin_III)\
**Post date:** [5 June 2021 08:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-grafana-interaction/46723/2 "2021-06-05T08:58:54Z")

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Just to give you a slight overview, the idea is to locally install node-red and remotely, on a server, to install node-red, grafana and a server mqtt. In this way the local node-red instance will communicate with the server via mqtt, and the user will connect with grafana directly on the server. Node-red is necessary server side and local side in order to perform several IoT action, other than collect and share data on database

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